Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A straight channel was cut under the new bridge for the river to run in and it joined the original channel near the site of the old boathouse , the river 's original course having been near where the old Post Office used to stand . |
| 2 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 3 | down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds |
| 4 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 5 | Roger quickly joined both ropes together and we descended the 300 feet to where I could follow our steps without difficulty to the foot of the crag . |
| 6 | From a drawer of her desk she brought out a number of pink slips clipped together and she separated the top three . |
| 7 | This time Radford did not let her chance slip away and she clinched the biggest victory of her career so far . |
| 8 | Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person . |
| 9 | Her lips parted uncertainly and she tasted the sweet caress of his mouth like a child tasting fizzy sherbet for the first time . |
| 10 | Garrett and songwriter Rob Hirst both acquit themselves verbally and we see the horrid side of the Aboriginal lot , but the ultimate drift is that important chances have been missed here . |
| 11 | The sarcasm seemed to relieve him a little and he took the black strop of leather from its nail and opened the razor . |
| 12 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 13 | ‘ The audience always begin laughing early on and they miss the last line , ’ said Den . |
| 14 | Right and I think the next one you got right , because you worked it out alright , cos it 's seven days , which is how many hours ? |
| 15 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 16 | ‘ Ta , ’ said Willie gratefully and he touched the soft wool of the pullover . |
| 17 | Lester Piggott provided the York magic yesterday and he looks the biggest danger here on another unlucky Goodwood horse , Mudaffar . |
| 18 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 19 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 20 | Anger and Resentment : Again these are felt to be justified but they are spiritual poisons nonetheless and they destroy the emotional life of the family member . |
| 21 | But her greatest thrill of all came on the very day they were going home , for the Brownie Guider from Stowbridge came to see them off and she brought the exciting news that a second Pack was being formed at Stowbridge and that the way was now wide open for Brenda to become a Brownie . |
| 22 | Mm , they had to take it off and she went the other way then |
| 23 | We tried it once and we got the wrong ruddy film we did ! |
| 24 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 25 | We cut it up and we flew the next day . |
| 26 | the pay slips they use in the can actually marked up and its got the exact |
| 27 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 28 | I wa I usually and then lock it and th and when there was visitors she opened up and she left the front door wide open and in there rummaging around ! |
| 29 | The fellow stood up and I saw the long , brown gown of a Franciscan monk , the rough cord round his waist and the wooden crucifix slung on a piece of string round his neck . |
| 30 | out and they see the big this big cow in a field he says , Ooh |