Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 2 | In his spare time , however , he is constructing a Silence of the Lambs-style cage in his garage near Armadale which is intended to frighten the living daylights out of anyone who enters it . |
| 3 | Erm I know some companies actually sell send the large ones out |
| 4 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 5 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 6 | I want to catch the same train out you see |
| 7 | In approaching this case the court first stated that there were many cases where a court has to construe a standard clause in , for example , a charter party , and there may be some earlier decisions on the same clause or on a clause which is in terms which are indistinguishable . |
| 8 | It will not promise to provide the best price in between . |
| 9 | He has let the whole school down . ’ |
| 10 | His next tack was to try to catch the ABS system out . |
| 11 | Lorne tried chanting a few limericks over and over , but we never saw the eels again , though we dived there often . |
| 12 | The company has built a strong reputation over more than 30 years as producers of fresh pork , cooked meats , sausages and bacon products for UK supermarkets , retailers and the food service industry . |
| 13 | ‘ I just ca n't believe it may all go to waste , ’ says Alison Knapp , a theatre manager who has seen the whole project through since it was first planned in 1983 . |
| 14 | Savage has made a flawless narrative out of the punk era , but , more importantly , he has revealed the facts behind the mythology . |
| 15 | The bill to reform what was seen as an unjust system has made a speedy passage on to the statute book after cross-party agreement to support the move . |
| 16 | Unlucky not to gain selection for the 800m in last year 's Barcelona Olympics , Strang , who ran a ‘ blinder ’ for Scotland in the 1990 Commonwealth Games 4x400 silver medal-winning team in Auckland , has made a remarkable transition up to 1,500m . |
| 17 | He 's signed up to go racing in America for a fistful of dollars … and few a for dollars more has got a new book out … |
| 18 | One publisher , who did not want to be named , agreed : ‘ Jackie Collins has got a new book out called American Star but I can not see it doing very well . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 20 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 21 | After a while the British press stopped reporting the Indian gifts out of sheer embarrassment . |
| 22 | So I 'll explain how we want to do a three-page feature on , for the sake of argument , the literary genius of Melvyn Bragg . |
| 23 | There was n't the slightest sign that a few hours earlier she had collapsed in paroxysms of tears and seriously considered calling the whole thing off . |
| 24 | Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse , which is oh dear me , as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out |
| 25 | Only the Sikh men seemed to have other things on their mind as , twirling their moustaches , they downed great tumblers of whisky and tried to lure the prettiest girls on to the dance floor . |
| 26 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 27 | A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . |
| 28 | Or will governors consider taking the easy way out ( and the cheapest ) and appoint a local teacher , who has perhaps proved an adequate supply teacher in the recent past ? |
| 29 | 4 Some reflex actions have to be learnt such as tying a shoe lace , chewing a pencil under stress and biting nails , but others come naturally from the moment we are born like digestion , breathing and jerking our big toe out of the bath water when we have forgotten to turn the cold tap on . |
| 30 | Britain 's newest T.V. satellite station , B S B , has announced a star-spangled line up for its launch in April , celebrities such as Mike Smith , naturalist David Bellamy , Juke Box Jury host , Jules Holland , will all be in the forefront of the drive for viewers . |