Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It set fire to the sheets , but luckily he managed to put the flames out with some water . ’ |
2 | She 's been trying to get the Blaneys out for some time . |
3 | In one of the cases up for judicial review the SSD withdrew a home help service because of a change in eligibility criteria , despite the fact the client 's condition had not altered since his assessment . |
4 | If that is a benefit short of trust status , why is it necessary to force through trust status while encouraging local hospital management and in so doing to bring the assets , the buildings and the personnel out of local health service management ? |
5 | He demanded , and got , only the best , invariably at a knockdown price after cleverly playing the manufacturers off against each other . |
6 | The building had two front doors , side by side , one for each house , and the steps up to each door were not divided ; an urn full of some kind of greenery stood in the middle of the steps , but there was no attempt at distinction . |
7 | Nearly all the vessels around at this time of year are private yachts and fishermen . |
8 | There were no lifts lifting the cars up at that time . |
9 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
10 | But the council say they have pledged to keep the homes out of private ownership unless it is absolutely necessary . |
11 | ‘ Perhaps there 's something … more … formal ? ’ she said , dragging the words out with ill-hidden reluctance . |
12 | Which fills the gardens up with headlong song . |
13 | He invented a machine which made the job quicker and easier by providing a separate needle for each loop , so as to make a whole row of stitches at one operation instead of casting all the loops on to one needle . |
14 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
15 | They do the tricks out of pure love and devotion to their owner . |
16 | Are knocking the daylights out of each other |
17 | I have to use the tapes up in normal conversation . |
18 | Sonic gives the thumbs up to cyberdelic overload |
19 | CHAMPION TRAINER Paul Cole yesterday gave the thumbs up for Magic Ring to run in Saturday 's Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes at Newbury following another pleasing home gallop . |
20 | Following the announcement , the issue got the thumbs up from several City commentators . |
21 | DARLINGTON 'S doctors this week gave the thumbs down to Conservative MP Michael Fallon . |
22 | If you knew some of the goings on of that lot in high places . ’ |
23 | They do n't put the lights on in this Christmas thing till it 's slightly dusk . |
24 | Keep the lights off during this process and until the next day . |
25 | So er if I can just have the lights off at this stage please . |
26 | We need to inform and to educate our members and as Duncan said we need to get the resources down to local level . |
27 | Prior knowledge ranged from seven of the subjects who previously knew all 40 of the junctions down to one subject who previously knew just six , the mean number known was 29.6 . |
28 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
29 | Indeed , he frequently managed both to play the French and the Americans off against each other and then to blame them when anything went wrong . |
30 | The only man capable of stopping his flow of boundaries was Dickie Bird , who took the players off for bad light for quarter of an hour at 5.30 . |