Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others claim that projects will be handled better and result in a net saving . |
| 2 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 3 | As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona . |
| 4 | She spent two weeks inside and returned with a vast stack of photocopied originals and a bill for the astronomical sum of f25 . |
| 5 | But my , my view would be that I would er you know investigate this fully and er come forward with a recommendation , but that er my own er thought would be , and I I now take your thoughts , that we should not get ourselves erm launched into a very big , massive erm you know operation of advertising this franchise afresh and going through the whole procedure . |
| 6 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 7 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 8 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 9 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 10 | The sun blazed in and lit upon a large , broad-shouldered , shaven-headed man . |
| 11 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 12 | It meant his leg was all skewed in and pushed against the other one . |
| 13 | Because I felt extremely low , and needed company , I telephoned Esme on Wednesday evening , the day Father died , to ask if she would come out for a canoe ride from the Aquatic Club to River Park , but she said she must stay in and practise for a forthcoming piano recital . |
| 14 | Without the slightest hesitation , he took two hops to the water , waded in and swam across the deep , still pool . |
| 15 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 16 | The semantic theories argue that the description just given is realized in and enforced by the very vocabulary of law , so that it would be a kind of self-contradiction for someone to claim that the law provides right s beyond those established through mechanisms sanctioned by convention . |
| 17 | To relax would mean giving in and conceding to a common prejudice which does nothing to enhance women 's esteem . |
| 18 | The 15-acre Herculaneum Dock , two miles from Liverpool city centre , was filled in and reclaimed for the International Garden Festival . |
| 19 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 20 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 21 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 22 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 23 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 24 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 25 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 26 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 27 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 28 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 29 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 30 | After a while , the bedroom door opened and they heard Mother and the visitor come down and go into the front room of the house . |