Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 4 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 5 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 6 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 7 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 8 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 9 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 10 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 11 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 12 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 13 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 14 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 15 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 16 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 17 | In return for giving this guarantee , both employer and employee pay lower national insurance contributions , and the money goes instead into a separate pension fund . |
| 18 | A mile interviewer with sleek hair sits awkwardly on a high-tech chair , agreeing with him . |
| 19 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 20 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 21 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 22 | Though outnumbered the Nez Perce fought valiantly in a gallant but vain attempt to reach Canada and to find sanctuary . |
| 23 | The robbers described as Afro- Caribbean made off with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 24 | Above : Synodontis multipunctatus fits well into a large Rift Valley set-up . |
| 25 | Honor got up like an old woman , glancing past Topaz to the shelves where bottles of medicine were stored . |
| 26 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 27 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 28 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 29 | Some , of course , had no choice in the matter , and like discarded Members of Parliament moved reluctantly towards an unwanted destiny . |
| 30 | 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 . |