Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roared on by the partisan Swansea crowd , Wales hit back with a brilliant two-try burst in the space of four minutes . |
| 2 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 3 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 4 | It is a mistake , I submit , to go along with the Dominican Matthew Fox in denying the concepts of the Fall and sin . |
| 5 | A survey by US federal scientists has recorded " total failure " to reproduce among colonies of murres — diving birds found widely in the northern Pacific . |
| 6 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 7 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 8 | The passengers may have been ablaze with diamonds , but the ships themselves were lit at every porthole and festooned with lights , as they moved relentlessly through the dark Atlantic waters like brilliant spaceships intent on terrestrial encounters . |
| 9 | But it is obvious , through public statements , media polls , and so on , not only that B would have fared badly under the old PLP electoral system , but that another MP , C , would have won convincingly under it , because in this example the PLP is to the right ( or to the left ) of the Party outside the House of Commons . |
| 10 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 11 | Olimpia 's ground beetle , a green- and gold-coloured species found only in the Italian Alps , is facing extinction . |
| 12 | The charge for us all then is to work together toward the New Europe and the New Atlanticism . |
| 13 | Junior Bent ( Bristol City , 12.06 ) , Efan Ekoku ( Bournemouth , 12.07 ) , Adrian Littlejohn ( Sheff Utd , 12.08 ) , Iffy Onuora ( Huddersfield 12.09 ) , Keith Curle ( Man City , 12.10 ) , Rod McDonald ( Walsall , 12.18 ) , Tony Witter ( QPR , 12.19 ) and John Goodman ( Millwall , 12.40 ) , and late replacements Vance Warner ( Nottm Forest ) and Michael Brown ( Bolton ) , who stands in for the injured Stuart Storer ( 12.17 ) . |
| 14 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 15 | She bore down on the surprised Jane like a galleon in full sail and demanded , imperiously , what she intended to ‘ do ’ with the house . |
| 16 | The Kingsley Club overlooked the wild and rugged Bathsheba beach , where huge boulders rose majestically from the thundering Atlantic surf . |
| 17 | The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn . |
| 18 | But in both cases we find that these molecules are expressed at the correct developmental stage and localize normally to the putative NMJ sites in the absence of the motor neuron ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 19 | The curve shown in Fig. 6.6 is an augmented Phillips curve which lies vertically above the original Phillips curve ( represented by the broken line ) by a distance , z , which depends on the degree of trade union militancy and the expected rate of inflation . |
| 20 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 21 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 22 | I was once rung up by the great Frank Sinatra himself . |
| 23 | for example : the swift change from the grand développé à la seconde which Odile makes facing the audience and her sudden turn to arabesque when she looks straight into the kneeling Siegfried 's eyes in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake ; it is Odile 's triumph for she knows she has won Siegfried 's heart . |
| 24 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 25 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 26 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 27 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 28 | Lord Ross now lives near on the Central Wales Line , and is a frequent user . |
| 29 | The announcement last week was the first bit of positive news to come out of the beleaguered EPA for weeks . |
| 30 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |