Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 2 | If it is unavoidable then type out the script in double spacing with bold headings . |
| 3 | McNeil , anxious to snatch victory before a suspension gave Wood a chance to recover , broke serve to love , hitting a perfect backhand return down the line on match point . |
| 4 | The three now play out the scene . |
| 5 | 1/I firstly draw up the picture , using a 2B pencil onto stretched paper . |
| 6 | However the emergence of anti-heroes like Billy Bunter , the demotion of romance to children 's literature , are obvious consequences of the Western world 's fifteen-hundred-year long climb down the ladder of literary modes . |
| 7 | At West Stow , where sunken buildings outnumber the ‘ halls ’ , the former clearly cluster around the halls in distinct groups . |
| 8 | TRAWLER skipper Peter Storey , 44 , netted his biggest ever catch off the Sussex coast yesterday — 130lb of can-nabis in a cylinder worth £250,000 . |
| 9 | Village fêtes in particular often show up the divisions in the village rather well . |
| 10 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |