Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem can arise acutely in a situation where Y takes goods from X on ‘ sale or return ’ terms . |
| 2 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 3 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 4 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 5 | Lenin clearly accepted the need for administration and administrators , but by a democratically controlled set of routine offices rotating widely among the population rather than by a ‘ special stratum of the population ’ . |
| 6 | and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches |
| 7 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 8 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 9 | The River Ure around Langthorpe was badly affected by mid-week floods and no one expected much from a venue still out of sorts for Bradford 's closing fixture . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't suppose you had time to see much on the way here ? ’ |
| 11 | It said that equal treatment applied only from the date when the European Court made its ruling . |
| 12 | Now , you 'll see that it has a tendency to go all over the world wherever it is invited but whoever invites the World Council of Churches now must , in fact , be able to cope with a great number of people ! |
| 13 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 14 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 15 | One thing seems clear , that such patterns did not exist only in the present largely abandoned marginal uplands , but also over great areas of the country . |
| 16 | More than half the 12.5 billion kilograms of milk produced annually in the Netherlands today is sold abroad and , of course , Dutch cheeses are renowned as well . |
| 17 | Thunder grumbled somewhere in the sky again and rain hissed at the windows . |
| 18 | He concludes that ‘ the people who should know most about the problem often do n't recognise it ’ . |
| 19 | A mist drifted over the marsh as the moon rose slowly over the tower above . |
| 20 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 21 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 22 | The majority of the deaf and dumb were still leading wretched and isolated lives , scattered all over the country singly or in small groups , untouched by change and ignorant of the world at large . |
| 23 | The narrative commences with Kathie ( Sylvia Syms ) and Peter ( Johnny Sekka ) walking together to the school where they both teach . |
| 24 | He was last seen climbing alone below the summit early this morning . |
| 25 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 26 | The road before looked much like the road behind . |
| 27 | Saturday might begin by dividing the participants into small groups of three or four , each composed of people from different communities so that everybody will be encouraged to work together as a team rather than rely on ‘ traditional ’ dominant group-leaders . |
| 28 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 29 | I was able to benefit greatly from the work already completed by this group and by the advice and encouragement which they provided . |
| 30 | Both focal and central places were important in the past and the concept is useful in explaining much in the landscape today . |