Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've fallen in with a right bad pair there , chief . |
| 2 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
| 3 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Example 105 Schoenberg creates a beautifully delicate harmony , which seems to float along on a distant astral plane . |
| 9 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 10 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A swift tour of inspection revealed numerous bedrooms , an enormous sitting-room with a raised dining-area visible through an archway , and a whole wall of french doors opening on to an oval glittering blue swimming-pool . |
| 14 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 15 | Austin , Texas-based Dell Computer Corp keeps them coming — yesterday added seven new 80486-based Dimension personal computers at from $1,400 including colour monitor and enhanced graphics built in through an integrated local bus video system : the systems also include 4Mb , 170Mb disk , 3.5 ’ and 5.25 ’ floppies , 512Kb video RAM MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 installed , and mouse . |
| 16 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
| 19 | Yawning , not hiding it , them an sat down on an ancient easy chair on one side of the dead fireplace . |
| 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 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 30 | After settling her bill , she went for a walk through the hotel grounds , ending up beside a pretty little river meandering gently through a meadow , and sat down on a boulder , barely feeling the coolness of the air as she gazed into the silvery , rippling waters . |