Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 2 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 4 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 5 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 6 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 7 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 8 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 9 | You 'll probably find when you register you 're invited to go along for a new patient medical anyway , and all sorts of things like that . |
| 10 | It will be necessary to see how far it is possible to go along with a strict criterion-referenced system or what kind of compromises may be worked out if such a system has advantages of motivating pupils and aiding changes in curriculum . |
| 11 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 12 | In Example 105 Schoenberg creates a beautifully delicate harmony , which seems to float along on a distant astral plane . |
| 13 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 14 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 15 | Cut the rich fruit cake in half diagonally and place one half on top of the other to form a triangle , sandwiching on with a little apricot glaze . |
| 16 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 17 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 18 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 19 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 20 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 21 | Fisons enjoyed another buoyant session , helped along by a few comforting words from broker Hoare Govett , who hosted a presentation to institutions on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 23 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 24 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 25 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 26 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 27 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 28 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 29 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 30 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |