Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 3 | Weathering rates and the intensity of leaching depend critically on the total throughput of water and this is likely to be far higher on a steep , well-drained slope than in flat terrain with poor drainage . |
| 4 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 5 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 6 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 7 | And it says come down onto the wet pale sand , |
| 8 | Fokker is negotiating with Lockheed to assemble aircraft in America : this would bring Lockheed back into the commercial business , which it quit in 1981 after losing its shirt with the TriStar . |
| 9 | Margery had a particular devotion to this saint , whose Revelations she had heard read aloud in an English translation . |
| 10 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 11 | The higher , reasoning brain has handed control over to the instinctive brain . |
| 12 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 13 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 14 | A minute into the second half , Alton made up the deficit when Paul Ventham intercepted a defender 's pass to put Whiddett through for a clinical finish . |
| 15 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 16 | This victory may set Stretch up with a world-title elimination fight with Britain 's other leading light middleweight , Chris Pyatt . |
| 17 | If the work of the SDPP is taken alongside that of another team on school management , the School Management Task Force ( DES 1990a ) , the benefit emerges of seeing how detailed proposals for management and review penetrate deep into the daily work of the school and how that detail can be set in the larger context of characteristics ( thirteen in number ) of effective schools ( DES 1990a : 5-6 ) , set against six management tasks which are regarded as having high priority following the 1988 Act . |
| 18 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 19 | The famous ceiling , where the wooden angels flew face down through the dusty air above the crowd , was so high it could scarcely be seen in the gloom . |
| 20 | This can be useful ; the only thing to bear in mind is that too many icons in here will increase the time taken for Windows to get going , so it 's best to keep Start Up for the real essentials . |
| 21 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 22 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 23 | Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another . |
| 24 | But one senior officer told us they felt let down by a legal system which denies them the right to detain an offender who 's cost 400 police hours in just 6 months . |
| 25 | I go go round with the bloody out there today ! |
| 26 | I mean it 's basically in , if it 's , if in , the main reason that people brought Share in for the large media restriction of pre |
| 27 | Even though , he lost his footing and ended up ‘ floating face down in the dark water , his body resting over the length of the rake as if it were afloat . |
| 28 | And the explanations they offer go back to the social wholes which form and constrain individual people . |
| 29 | Add , that means go along towards the positive numbers , and I 'm going to count , how many am I going to count ? |
| 30 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |