Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 2 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 3 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 4 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 5 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 6 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 7 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 8 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 9 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 10 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 11 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 12 | A deal is expected to be put together and announced within the next two weeks . |
| 13 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 14 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 15 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 16 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 17 | I was allowed to get up and dress on the tenth day after Heather 's birth , and go to the day room of the hospital ready to go to my billet at the fortnight . |
| 18 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 19 | I mean he 's not gon na sort of get up and go within the next twelve months is he ? |
| 20 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |
| 21 | ‘ This has been a big exercise , ’ said Crawford , ‘ but it is all nearing completion now and the new systems should be up and running during the next six months . ’ |
| 22 | Unilinx services should be up and running by the first quarter of next year . |
| 23 | The headmaster got up and started towards the next gallery . |
| 24 | ‘ But many years ago , a wise old man said fall in love and you may fall flat on your face , but pick yourself up and rush towards the next one , knees bleeding , face bruised , arms open , heart on fire . ’ |
| 25 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 26 | Unless he considers that there are important aspects requiring further investigation in depth , the Chief Inspector will order that a summary of the facts relating to — the accident be drawn up and published in the next monthly issue of AIB bulletins . |
| 27 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 28 | I looked out and saw for the first time the main street of Koraloona 's largest town , Anani : a dusty white strip of road , a long row of assorted shops , a few cars . |
| 29 | and er the second door on , you , it opened and the doctor came out and called for the next person to come in , she did n't look to be above forty year old |
| 30 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |