Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 19-year-old girl was injured by the stolen car which hurtled up an alley and rebounded off a wall before hitting her and another wall . |
| 2 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 3 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 4 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 5 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 6 | The Japanese interned those who surrendered without a struggle and killed all those French elements who put up a resistance . |
| 7 | That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right . |
| 8 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 9 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 10 | With some of the other interested officers I worked out a syllabus for training selected junior officers in the rudiments of seamanship and navigation using Venturous as a practical training ship . |
| 11 | British farmers who sold up a few years ago to buy cheap agricultural land in France are also finding that the grass is no greener on the other side of the Channel , and costs more . |
| 12 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 13 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 14 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 15 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |
| 16 | While writing this book I carried out a personal survey of the whole sky , using the binoculars which I have listed on page 16 . |
| 17 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two . |
| 18 | For this reason , adultery should be seen for what it has become , an act of sexual conduct which takes on a symbolic character if offensive to the other partner . |
| 19 | On Hong Kong this year it took on a slightly different connotation . |
| 20 | This year I bedded out a few of these house plants in a prominent position in the garden . |
| 21 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 22 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 23 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 24 | This time I worked out a pattern to my own measurements with correct tension and hopefully with more luck . |
| 25 | After meeting pupils of Maghull High School , Mr Hunt was introduced to Merseyside Tec 's Future programme which sets out a career and training plan for clients . |
| 26 | ‘ Enjoy our disco-bats in their jungle gym in the sky ! ’ was the enticing offer stripped across the GG 's Barnum Room doors , the disco-bats being male acrobats who performed over a net draped just above the heads of the dancers . |
| 27 | As a personal trademark we put up a straw model of a short-eared owl made locally especially for us . |
| 28 | You ca n't wait to buy a copy and read some intriguing article you glimpse over a strap-hanging shoulder . |
| 29 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 30 | Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime . |