Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the goat was made ready , Loopy Lil helped Dot up onto the little red-painted cart with the empty milk cans clattering on the wooden seat beside her , while Mrs Hollidaye took the leading-rein at the front . |
| 5 | And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 8 | By drawing engine cooling air in through the left-front wheelarch , for example , Renault engineers have not only been able to enhance the Clio 's aerodynamics , but also protect the engine from damage caused by ingress of foreign bodies . |
| 9 | It 'll screw drive on to a flat surface . |
| 10 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 11 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 12 | Both knew it would not end with tricking information out of the Versorelli Institute . |
| 13 | On Forbes 's ‘ throne ’ by the VDUs sat the queen bee of admin , weaving order out of the potential chaos of paperwork . |
| 14 | Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest . |
| 15 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |
| 16 | Crash girl back from the dead |
| 17 | It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge . |
| 18 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 19 | She bundled Dot on to the front seat with rugs up to the chin . |
| 20 | There is also the implication in the model that , if you successfully prevent entry up till the mature stage of the life-cycle , you will then , subject to the price elasticity of demand , be able to increase prices in the way illustrated in figure 5.3 . |
| 21 | Haddad said that the aim would be selective growth with the co-operation of business and labour ; the government would be pleased , he said , if it could bring inflation down to an annualized rate of 60 per cent . |
| 22 | One takes a high level reservoir and if there is more electricity available than the demand requires , then some of that can be used to pump water up into the high level down . |
| 23 | It was at that moment their quarry became aware of them and increased his own speed sharply , sprinting flat out across a small clearing . |
| 24 | I have a headache and am concerned that the wind has dehydrated me ; it is so important to pour liquid down in the Arctic , especially in winter . |
| 25 | It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car . |
| 26 | It is a very useful behaviour when trying to get to the bottom of things and when you need to tease information out of the other person . |
| 27 | However , because refrigerators will not necessarily chill food down to the required temperature , plenty of establishments have become reliant on blast chillers to attain 0 to +5 degrees C levels in a short space of time . |
| 28 | In most species there are at least three distinct classes of ganglion cells in the retina that conduct information through to the visual cortex in physiologically distinguishable streams . |
| 29 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 30 | Push tool down into the second stitch — the first stitch will slip behind the latch and you can ‘ crochet ’ the second stitch through the first . |