Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 2 | ‘ Let us all down by looking like the poor relation ? ’ |
| 3 | He could glamour it all up by putting in a phoney dashboard and to that end he thought that perhaps he could borrow ( borrow is a word we use a lot in the Air Force ) some instruments from an old aeroplane down on the aerodrome — I believe it was a Boulton Paul Sidestrand . |
| 4 | We still may not know who gave orders and made guide sketches — and Professor Alexander is extremely cautious in references to heads of workshops and their assistants — but the fact that such marks exist at all will send us all back to gazing into the parchment margins beside initials . |
| 5 | Where a director of music has an inadequate knowledge of the liturgy , the musical contribution may be at best out of keeping with the rest of the celebration , and at worst destructive of it . |
| 6 | As a young back-bencher , Irwin dreamed one night of meeting Lloyd George in a train carrying them both back from campaigning at a bye-election . |