Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lengthy booklists are expensive and dull : with some time and effort it will be possible for you to build up a personal library and reference system which is individually geared to your particular needs , and one which helps you to build on your existing knowledge rather than attempting to start again from scratch . |
| 2 | Some of us went round a guy 's flat . |
| 3 | And this week they are offering RAC starter membership , worth £35 , free to anyone taking out a motor insurance policy . |
| 4 | On the other hand , like all French spas , it advertises the wonderful things it can do for your health progressively as you approach , by way of graduated signs fifty yards apart , each of which singles out an affliction or an organ that you might have treated here . |
| 5 | However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range . |
| 6 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 7 | It was too early for me to think up a brilliant reply . |
| 8 | The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers . |
| 9 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 10 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 11 | Although Goodman and Peckinpah are credited with the screenplay , all three of them hammered out a final script . |
| 12 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 13 | He regularly outwitted a host of cartoon criminals with colourful names and faces to match : Pruneface , Shoulders , The Rodent , Itchy , Mumbles and Flat Top all of whom put in an appearance in the film , their prosthetics and make-up masking well-known faces . |
| 14 | Work on restoring the Wimpy to its former self is proceeding well , thanks to its loyal band of workers , many of whom give up a considerable amount of spare time to work on the aircraft . |
| 15 | With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school . |
| 16 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 17 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 18 | While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds . |
| 19 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 20 | One of them pulled out a revolver aiming it inches away from P C Ray Hall 's nose . |
| 21 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 22 | At the end of each of the five verses , one of us blew out a candle , and it was very effective , dramatically . |
| 23 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 24 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 25 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 26 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 27 | As lads , ignorant about stalking , two of us hove over a horizon just as someone fired at a stag . |
| 28 | As we passed close by we made out a cross , erected at the tip in 1896 after two destroyers collided in thick fog , eventually breaking up on the headland . |
| 29 | But in some cases there is dependence , and laser killing shows that , for example , one kind of cell induces three other cells just next to it to develop along a particular pathway . |