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

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1 For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask .
2 Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up in a dry dock , ’ he said .
3 Before he left Larnaca airport on a US Navy helicopter for the hop over to the American Embassy in East Beirut , his briefcase was rigged with a microchip Gigaherz transmitter no bigger than a butter biscuit .
4 She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids .
5 They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions .
6 Burton pulled the struggle out into the open and made this ‘ thing ’ that was himself stand up to as many trials as he could imagine .
7 The galley pulled away , its oars dipping as it made its way down , following the tide out into the open sea .
8 Carrick 's other winner was Alistair Murphy who tore the heart out of the Old Bleach four skipped by George Adair .
9 He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in .
10 Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start .
11 Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start .
12 Class leader Lynn Lawrence , 46 , of Hawthorne Close , Bury , has handed the money over to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund .
13 ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy .
14 If a grant is made and there is money or other assets in the estate of the person who has died , this will have to be used to pay the money back to the Social Fund .
15 You take some of the money out of the living assurance plan .
16 Hari took the money out of the old cracked teapot she kept on the shelf , she had just enough for the rent and she smiled in relief .
17 The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back .
18 Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him .
19 To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation .
20 Full of hope , I took the watch in to a smart business in the Rue du Rhône , where it was examined by a stately manager .
21 The journalists challenging the High Court ruling at yesterday 's hearing said they would pursue the case through to the European Court .
22 ‘ The files record each stage of the case up to the final decision by the Commander-in-Chief .
23 That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside .
24 From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today .
25 The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 12 upheld the August 1990 conviction of former DC mayor Marion Barry for cocaine possession , but referred the case back to the original trial judge for resentencing , on the grounds that the judge had not given sufficient explanation for his decision in October to impose a sentence of six months ' imprisonment .
26 Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running .
27 This first requires the code to be downloaded from the computer out to a dedicated programming unit and transferred into an EPROM or EEPROM , which is then removed and placed into the module under test .
28 I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error .
29 When damage like this has occurred you should always prune the stem back to a good , vigorous-looking bud .
30 I had a flashback on Saturday listening to the build up to the Newcastle-scum game when the commentator described the third goal ( I think ) of the scum 's against Sheff .
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