Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 2 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 3 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 4 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 5 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 6 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 7 | If you just knit two yarns together without a plating feeder , sometimes one yarn will be on the purl side and sometimes the other . |
| 8 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 9 | We did indeed use our cars rather like a TV set . |
| 10 | They were a sort of club rather like a football club . |
| 11 | It was a large , flat-bottomed sailing boat rather like a Thames barge or , as tourists were over-prone to comment , a College houseboat , except that its cabins were all above deck and all aft . |
| 12 | To this the tiger agreed , and having tied their tails together in a reef knot , the pair set off arm in arm . |
| 13 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 14 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |
| 15 | In Dec. 1892 another meeting was called this time it was to discuss the construction of a high level bridge , and to print a pamphlet together with a lithograph plan of the proposed bridge . |
| 16 | FIG. 1 Glutamate uptake generates an extracellular alkalinization. a and b , Changes in pH recorded with a pH-sensitive microelectrode just outside a Mûller cell ( pH o , alkaline upwards ) during membrane polarization from +17mV ( where uptake is small ) to -83mV ( where uptake is large ) in solutions containing 107mM ( a ) or 0mM ( b ) sodium and 0μM or 100μM L-glutamate. c , pH o ( as in a , with 100μM glutamate ) during activation of different amounts of uptake by polarization from +7mV to various test potentials ( bars ) . |
| 17 | I mean it was only six or seven foot long but it was a a python nevertheless in a glass case . |
| 18 | Do n't just brew the tea just for a moment love , I 've got the pudding to put out . |
| 19 | Bypass go-ahead at last but pressure group favours rail link The long-awaited Guisborough bypass was officially given the go-ahead by Cleveland county council on Tuesday just as a transport group called for a re-think on the multi-million pound scheme . |
| 20 | The one exception , says Professor Garrow , is if you lose weight quickly on a crash diet , because you will lose more lean tissue than with gradual weight loss , and that does make the metabolism less efficient . |
| 21 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 22 | There was a scrape as she brought a taper forth from a tin box and leaned towards the fire to light it . |
| 23 | This review of child-care in Scotland began before the children in Orkney were taken from their homes early on a February morning . |
| 24 | He had er , fourteen and a half thousand pound once in a building society four year ago there 's nine hundred pound left in his bu er , building society account ! |
| 25 | Details emerged in confidential documents faxed to the Press Association yesterday including a draft letter from Mr Lilley to the Prime Minister . |
| 26 | A trained observer selected longitudinal crypts and counted labelled and unlabelled cells in the proliferative compartment , entering data directly into a BBC Microcomputer . |
| 27 | MR JOHN Heddle , the Conservative MP for Mid Staffordshire , was found dead in his car yesterday at a chalk pit near Canterbury , Kent . |
| 28 | A JUDGE awarded £147,000 yesterday to a hero fireman left a nervous wreck by the Kings Cross fire disaster and told him : ‘ You are the most courageous man I have had the privilege of meeting . ’ |
| 29 | There is , however , a lot to be gained from a consideration of Canova 's response to the human figure both as a starting point for the investigation of sculpture where ‘ dream , myth and reverie ’ are cited as key notes of interpretation , and an investigation of nuances of meaning which the application of the words ‘ sensual ’ or ‘ sensuous ’ may have when applied to sculpture , an art form which after all is made and largely understood through touch . |
| 30 | Just about the hardest job in the Commons is making the Opposition 's reply straight after a Government announcement , particularly a financial one . |