Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 2 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 3 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted to look pale and interesting and bowl him over with my sparkling wit ! ’ |
| 5 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 6 | I generally work from dark to light and bring it out from the dark . |
| 7 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 8 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 9 | Then lift the front foot high and hook it back into the opponent 's head . |
| 10 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 11 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
| 12 | The barman pulled the knot on his bow tie , gave himself a shot of booze , drank it , then gave himself another and carried it out into the garden , strolling away from the orchard and the tufty grass . |
| 13 | You argue with one another and put it down to the fact that people who are prejudiced are ignorant . |
| 14 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 15 | So , take your fingers from the outside and move them in towards the nose and round so that you do n't stretch the skin even more . |
| 16 | Fred was delighted and led her up to his bedroom where a truly magnificent blue and yellow parrot sat in a tall cage . |
| 17 | He says did n't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack . |
| 18 | As soon as I saw this , I dialled 999 and took her out to the studio in the stables where I live . |
| 19 | As neither of us knew anything about it we tried to glean as much information on the technical side of sailing as possible and build it in to our globe-trotting plans . |
| 20 | He picked up a can , ripped the ring-pull and held it out to her . |
| 21 | I was upset and taking it out on you . |
| 22 | We need to be able to return people to normal and put them back into society . |
| 23 | In 1582 the first earl over-reached himself when , in a misguided attempt to gain control over the young king , he and others kidnapped James VI and carried him off to Huntingtower . |
| 24 | She could go her own way , or she must hand over that rebellious will , and seek God 's forgiveness for the years when she had been downright disobedient and pushed Him out of her life . |
| 25 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 26 | But thanks for the point , and I mean , I 'll make a note of that and take it up to the health authority . |
| 27 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 28 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 29 | you have to fill in the rest of that and give it back to me . |
| 30 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |