Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
2 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
3 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
4 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
5 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
6 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
7 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
8 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
9 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
10 | The lovely smell of beer and tobacco smoke built up over almost a hundred years was being driven out by other smells : fresh paint , newly-glued-together plastic and fried food . |
11 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
12 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
13 | The services carried out by both the All- weather and Inshore lifeboats over the years are well documented and , as usual , Jeff Morris 's book can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the work and history of lifeboats in the area . |
14 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
15 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
16 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
17 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
18 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
19 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
20 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
21 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
22 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
23 | Racal 's share price suddenly shot up by almost a third , despite the fact that the partial flotation would have absolutely no effect on the already-excellent prospects for Vodafone . |
24 | Them drama people came up with quite a good id couple of good ideas . |
25 | and with regard to the three bedrooms do you actually need three bedrooms or if a a two bedroomed cottage came up with perhaps an extra room downstairs or something would that be okay ? |
26 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
27 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
28 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
29 | And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop . |
30 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |