Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 3 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 4 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 5 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 6 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 7 | The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground . |
| 8 | A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up . |
| 9 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 10 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 11 | Doctor Robert Dexter sat forward quickly , sucking in a deep breath as he regained his senses . |
| 12 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 13 | Next year I hope they bring in a seeding system as many of the top winning dogs clashed very early on . |
| 14 | She would pretend to be frightened when he jumped out , would call out to him to be careful when he crept along an overhanging branch and hung , skimming the water . |
| 15 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co–operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 17 | Pat Palmer is asking everyone to co-operate — if you have not yet filled in a pink form or given verbal class details to your Area Organiser will you please forward these details to the Office by early August so that we can have a comprehensive up-to-date class list ready to meet all enquiries for the new season . |
| 18 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 19 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 20 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 21 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 22 | MI6 had discovered that the trunk cable from the Imperial Hotel passed along a main road and it acquired a shop from which a tunnel was dug towards the cable duct and the trunk circuits were then tapped one by one . |
| 23 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 24 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 25 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 26 | The church is Romanesque and approached along a tree-clad path that makes a very pleasant change from the more normal city approach — straight off the road . |
| 27 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 28 | The Bush administration sent contradictory signals about its intentions to continue its economic strategy of keeping down the federal deficit while awaiting recovery in 1992 . |
| 29 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 30 | They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track . |