Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 2 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 3 | I 've examined each round under a microscope , and none seems to have any fingerprints , except the one that you packed separately , which you say you found in the mud . |
| 4 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 5 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 6 | Like this is my opening routine , I got this out of a book actually , you come , okay ? |
| 7 | The newspaper quoted unnamed friends ruling that out as a result of new revelations in the latest edition of Andrew Morton 's book , Diana Her True Story . |
| 8 | And I erm , just picked that up in a garage some place , thought it was such a cool , I just really liked the picture . |
| 9 | But I was n't to find that out for a while yet . |
| 10 | The forceplate can pick up damage while a horse still looks normal even to a trainer 's practised eye . |
| 11 | I drew this up as a sketch showing , in essence , a section of the city . |
| 12 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 13 | It 's not just because this illness is self- , it 's self-inflicted er , cause , er , you 've obviously picked this up from a variety of other er , I 'd say , sources , but you also pick it up in you know , blood transfusions situation . |
| 14 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 15 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 16 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 17 | The islands rose sheer out of a millpond sea , pillars of white limestone with ochre splotches capped in crinkly green . |
| 18 | It ta tastes nicer out of a paper . |
| 19 | I shall zip that up in a minute . |
| 20 | We let this carry that out for a month or so , and he was very annoyed about it . |
| 21 | She could n't do that again for a while , she had to be on duty over Christmas as it was . |
| 22 | I promised myself I 'd never smoke again and I did n't often do that twice in a morning . |
| 23 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
| 24 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 25 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 26 | Printer port or something I 've never seen that before on a menu |
| 27 | Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom . |
| 28 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 29 | I 've also written this out as a table in Figure 2 . |
| 30 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |