Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma Thompson will continue her rise in Remains of the Day and Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 2 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 3 | Although you have to cart the cylinder around with you , there is a bonus in that a blowtorch can be used upside down to get under a pipe which is being fitted in situ ; turning a cartridge-fed blowlamp upside down can cause problems as it will flare . |
| 4 | And secondly a lot of er a number of consultants want to leave their bonuses in to accrue during the year . |
| 5 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |
| 6 | ‘ I like to get pictures as if the horse is about to blink or breathe , the nostrils about to expand or contract , the legs about to break into a trot or canter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Stay where you are , Judy ! ’ she cried , as she saw Judy on her hands and knees about to crawl under the wire to Mandy 's rescue . |
| 8 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 9 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 10 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 11 | And the moody Rich who would take a girl out to sit by a river , leave her as untouched as a Madonna in a Lady Chapel and read poetry aloud . |
| 12 | He looked around and saw Pete about to go out the door . |
| 13 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 14 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 15 | Phoebe dealt with Maggie 's immediate needs and took her trousers off to soak in the bathroom . |
| 16 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 17 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 18 | well personally I 've , I 've never had a problem getting members who are on nights their night off to go on a training course , never . |
| 19 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 20 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 21 | The water managers will push water in or hold water out according to a computer programmed with decades of data about rainfall and drought . |
| 22 | The prospect of a gentle ski out disappeared with the arrival of a metre of glutinous snow . |
| 23 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
| 24 | His fingers drew strands of hair out to glitter in the firelight . |
| 25 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 26 | ‘ If we put ten names in to speak against the motion , even that poor bugger Webb-Bowen will have to pick one of us . |
| 27 | When they were ready , send a messenger back to bring over the remainder , who would endeavour to ride on and past as silently as possible and form the barrier between town and castle . |
| 28 | Eskimos put their old people out to die on the ice . |
| 29 | After lunch , Faye had her nap , which had stretched to two hours now , as she was sleeping poorly at night , and after she woke she usually liked to have Belinda in to chat over the mid-afternoon snack . |
| 30 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |