Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon . |
| 2 | Being organised can take a great deal of worry out of a single life . |
| 3 | This is , by definition , neither a penalty clause , nor a limitation of liability up to a certain amount , because it is supposed to be a genuine pre-estimate of the damage . |
| 4 | He and Compeyson had got a lot of money out of a rich lady some years before , and Arthur kept dreaming of this lady . |
| 5 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 6 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 7 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 8 | You arrange to draw Bills of Exchange up to an agreed limit payable at a stipulated future date — the minimum for each individual bill is £50,000 . |
| 9 | If a man was lucky it was a case of pop in for a quick half , then home to a meal of bubble and squeak with the Missus . |
| 10 | This is a depressing combination if you like your lap legends to have a modicum of grace along with a heavy right foot . |
| 11 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 12 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 13 | ‘ It is his mother , ’ Mrs Ames was saying later , dropping a blob of cream on to a warm scone , ‘ she is seventy-four . |
| 14 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |
| 15 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 16 | A small amount of excavation down to a new lower-level concrete floor slab then provided sufficient height for two habitable storeys in the central zone of the building ( Fig 42 ) . |
| 17 | This reportedly brought Germany 's level of contribution up to a level similar to that of Japan . |
| 18 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 19 | Shares would normally be redeemed out of distributable profits , but the Act does allow for redemption out of a fresh issue of shares , and private companies can redeem out of capital ( ss 171 – 172 Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 20 | When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket . |
| 21 | It must have just lurched into life out of a great trodden stillness of dust and damp . |
| 22 | In this connection Kant is somewhat notorious for sometimes seeming to think it better to help those in need out of a sheer sense of duty , without feeling any sympathy for them , than with feelings of loving kindness . |
| 23 | A squirrel scurried in fright up into a nearby beech-tree . |
| 24 | ‘ We put Zebedee back in the horse box and he went off in disgrace back to a local farm . ’ |
| 25 | As part of the post-war baby bulge , I am confidently expecting to spend at least 20 years in retirement along with an unprecedented number of my peers . |
| 26 | The company , which last year sold 45 farms , puts the rise in interest down to a new confidence in farming caused by European Community reform , a drop in interest rates and good prices for beef . |
| 27 | It is not a good idea to keep fountains running in the cold months , because they exert a chilling effect and , of course , the jets in the nozzles will be the first to ice up in a frosty snap . |
| 28 | He proceeds to mooch about in a hang-dog way until he runs across his younger brother , quiet student Dennis ( William Sage ) who informs him their long-lost father has just been arrested for bombing the Pentagon 20 years previously . |
| 29 | I do n't really believe it will ever be made ; I am just providing the raw material which Letterman and some highly paid specialist screenwriter are going to work up into a proper script . |
| 30 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |