Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
| 2 | Here on this east side are the exaggerated sweeping gables , the cottagey front door with its hinges forged with heart-shaped ends ( a trade mark of Mr Voysey ) , the elaborate gutters , the pebble-dash over the two-feet-thick stone walls , and the cosy , comforting scale of the whole , so nice to come home to on a wet and windy evening . |
| 3 | But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke . |
| 4 | The road , now heading east once more , climbs onward to within a short walk 's distance from that same awesome Rhone glacier before tackling the highest pass of the trip , the Furka ( 2,431m , 7,974ft ) , which forms the boundary between cantons Valais and Uri . |
| 5 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 6 | He spins back to his family , snatching the napkin from his collar , his chin jutting righteously from beneath a press-lipped mouth . |
| 7 | Features to look out for on a commercial microwave oven include a turbo-grill , a convection oven and microwave functions that can reduce cooking times by up to 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 9 | Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in . |
| 10 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 11 | From the eyelid down , one cheek was a mask of blood ; the eye stared opaquely from under a half-closed lid . |
| 12 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 13 | She had wisps of grey hair poking out from under a black lace bonnet and wore a long black lace dress down to her feet . |
| 14 | The director retired soon after with a tax-free cash lump sum a lot smaller than it need have been , because all the calculations were based on an artificially small definition of final pensionable salary . |