Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | So , Ill be signing off now in a CRAPPY SHEFF UTD sort of way . |
| 62 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 63 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 64 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 65 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 66 | They all moved off together down the tawny dust of the road , close beside the shingle banks and black deeps of the river . |
| 67 | The picture on the last page shows the father walking off alone along the darkening street , leaving the brightly lit house behind him . |
| 68 | A boy who used to wander off alone into the tall trees which threatened the village and , as though in insolent reminder of their dominance , sent long poking fingers of animated shrub foraging between the dumpy houses , the stone chapel and the corrugated band hot . |
| 69 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 70 | The SEC 's New York office is making informal inquiries into several instances when a share price moved up ahead of a favourable announcement about the restructuring of the company 's debt . |
| 71 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 72 | There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath . |
| 73 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 74 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 75 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 76 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |
| 77 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 78 | IT ALL adds up now to a fifth successive Premier Division championship for Rangers , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 79 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 80 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 81 | The pool of light in which they stood was sharply divided from the darkness pressing up around like a stealthy animal . |
| 82 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 83 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 84 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 85 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 86 | Sidney lives out here on the eastern side of the town where the fish cellars used to be . |
| 87 | Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle . |
| 88 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 89 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 90 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |