Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to free his head and threw the jerkin to the floor , to see Madra there with a heavy tray at the table . |
| 2 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 3 | In this way , the insect can make progress even against a light headwind . |
| 4 | But that does n't mean to say that what Danny said was very valuable , and as you said Adrian , the four , the four parties , the receiver , the thirty party receiver , the people who are paying the bills buyer and us are very happy in many cases with using carriage forward in a positive way not just for returns |
| 5 | A number of statutes contain provisions allowing review only within a limited period , commonly being six weeks . |
| 6 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 7 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 8 | The important thing is to solve those problems rather than trying to drive grievances underground by a further set of hasty legislation . ’ |
| 9 | But by and large rugby has much to be proud of as a vehicle for bringing nations together in a sporting brotherhood when political barriers threaten to keep them apart . |
| 10 | I am fortunate that she adores books , enthuses over learning at home and has settle happily into a private nursery school . |
| 11 | Apparently , because my employment had officially been terminated by me , I had arguably made myself voluntarily unemployed and was therefore entitled to benefit money only after a certain period . |
| 12 | He can protect himself under Ord 33 , r4A by making a written offer to accept liability up to a specified proportion , which can be brought to the attention of the judge after he has decided the liability issue at trial . |
| 13 | IF YOU want to find work overseas as a newly-fledged EC national , the advice is not ‘ on yer bike ’ but ‘ on the ferry ’ . |
| 14 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 15 | Feed and dead-head plants regularly for a long-lasting display |
| 16 | Initially , it promised repayment out of a future parliamentary grant , but most lenders , possibly all , were still waiting to be repaid in 1529 , when Parliament absolved the King from all obligation to redeem this debt . |
| 17 | The ANC regarded Strydom not as a political prisoner but as a racist psychopath . |
| 18 | We described stratification earlier as a stable structure of inequality between groups which persist across generations . |
| 19 | The editing pattern consists of one entry per character position in the destination string : each of these specifies insertion either of a designated character or of the next character from the source string , and this may depend on the sign of the value being converted or on whether the first significant digit has yet been reached . |
| 20 | It 'll screw drive on to a flat surface . |
| 21 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 22 | I reckon they 'll come with 9 or 10 behind the ball at all times and hope to catch Leeds out with a long punt or from a set piece . |
| 23 | That did not matter much when rich foreigners used Switzerland simply as a safe home for their money . |
| 24 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 25 | Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex . |
| 26 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 27 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 28 | ‘ I should like to marry Tory when I grow up , ’ he told Marie decisively during a rainy afternoon which drove the children in to the chilly shelter of the Aberknowe kitchen . |
| 29 | If you cut corners just for a quiet life , you 'll have trouble . |
| 30 | Clough , jun , currently being used as a makeshift central defender , put Forest ahead with a superb solo goal after four minutes . |