Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint .
2 You put that on at the right time
3 They all plead not guilty along with a fifth man , Kenneth Osborne .
4 It 's right down at the far south west .
5 The cheapest rate I came across was right down at the southern tip of the country where Invercargill 's Southland Aero Club were virtually giving a Tomahawk away for NZ$80 per hour solo ( £24.25 ) .
6 I , I will I 'll stick that in for a few grand .
7 No they have n't got that in for a little while .
8 What I 'd like to do is reprice that and put that in as the net list .
9 Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave .
10 And I put that down to the biggest contribution .
11 If I stretch my imagination , I can admit to feeling a little tired lately , but put that down to the ageing process .
12 Erm I mean we 'll put that down as a third reserve .
13 However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable .
14 The implications of being 4–0 down in an 11 match contest were telling , and despite a spirited display by Virginia Humphreys Davies in the opening contest on the second day , when she outlasted Lisa Albano to reduce the deficit , there was little anyone could do to delay the inevitable .
15 Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’
16 The critical values for χ 12 above which the two polymers will phase separate , calculated for various mixtures with , are shown in table 8.4 along with the corresponding differences in δ .
17 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
18 The shipyard was opened in 1940 and rebuilt in 1986 along with the tidal wall .
19 We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with .
20 ‘ And I take it you want me to pass this on to the investigating team ? ’
21 I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’
22 When they reach the source of the drumming they climb up one ladder and then another on to the top roof of the house .
23 Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster .
24 A woman — your mother — had been flung clear on to the soft shoulder .
25 Masur beat compatriot Jaime Morgan 3–6 4–6 6–3 6–4 7–5 after being two sets down and then 5–0 down in the final set .
26 It continually updates so that you can see the exact amount of bytes free along with a graphical representation of the percentage free .
27 He has two VCs , one from each of the two cameras , and he 'd like to pare this down to a 5 min promo .
28 Since the election , officials on both sides of the Atlantic have toned this down to a special envoy , one that would be on a fact-finding mission .
29 My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket .
30 My instinct is to put all this down to the vitiating effect of the Thatcher years , when proper provisionalism , breadth , pluralism and doubt were banished and the harsh , amoral glitter of ends attained-by-whatever-means held sway .
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