Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would glean the last of the coffee but hardly got paid anything . |
| 2 | Below her , tucked into a natural bowl where a lush green valley met the aquamarine of the Atlantic Ocean , nestled the tiny fishing village of Praia do Carvoeiro . |
| 3 | Eventually they met the Royal in the final . |
| 4 | First , he must regain support abroad , stop the economy from re-entering the tailspin in which he found it and reconquer the two-thirds of the country lost to an undeclared civil war , without driving new recruits into the arms of the guerrillas . |
| 5 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 6 | The moment they arrived in Parson 's Green Penry rushed Leonora to the Range Rover , gave her a moment to fish out a gift-wrapped package from the bag containing her change of clothes , then stowed the latter in the car . |
| 7 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 8 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 9 | The female deals with the young without the help of the male , or in certain cases the male rears the young without the help of the female . |
| 10 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 11 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 12 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 13 | The Chartists would liberate the Irish as a byproduct of their struggle for power in British . |
| 14 | The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation , probably in the wake of Mr Marshall , when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence . |
| 15 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 16 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 17 | It was universally accepted that no man married merely for love , and many men and women no doubt made the best of the circumstances , and fell in love with their partners . |
| 18 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 19 | In the early 1890s , in loyal imitation of the Queen , Gladstone made the first of a number of visits . |
| 20 | Allerton Bywater is hardly on the rock map and the locals made the most of a rate visit to their town , greeting every song with enthusiastic clapping . |
| 21 | Accordingly , Leicestershire made the most of an attack which contained only two seamers , neither of whom were able to make the ball lift above the knee-cap , and three spinners of uncertain intent . |
| 22 | During our cool weather short stay , we made the most of the water facilities — shoots , slides , exciting rapids and a wave pool , Jacuzzis , saunas , solariums and steam baths are also available , as are indoor badminton and bowling , archery , roller skating , windsurfing , canoeing , snooker , horse riding and tennis . |
| 23 | I had no razor or toiletries , but made the most of the bathroom shower and hot water and began to feel better . |
| 24 | Yet it did , and the batsmen made the most of the conditions . |
| 25 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 26 | The closure notice was peremptory and we made the most of the fact that a poor , struggling little community service radio station , without benefit of commercial revenue , serving the southern and central parts of the province from gratis studios and operated by a completely voluntary staff , was being victimized by a powerful political federal body without regard to the expressed wishes of the people . |
| 27 | On nice days we made the most of the sunshine and moved the bench into the garden where we assembled the clocks , sitting in our bikinis . |
| 28 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 29 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 30 | Using the best of the season 's fruits we 've put together a delicious array of puddings that are easy to make and wo n't pile on the pounds . |