Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 2 | I told you I sat round there once and it took him an hour a whole hour , and I 'm , I 'm not exaggerating to fit or to put up half a sheet of wallpaper ! |
| 3 | Otherwise , re-brief or think over all the aspects of misjudgements on slopes and the reasons for needing extra speed . |
| 4 | Try feeding lying down ( not easy to master ) or standing up all the time ( exhausting ) . |
| 5 | In that way you will either have a subtle blend of colours that is always pleasing to look at , or a bright cheerful picture that shows off all the flowers . |
| 6 | Others likened it to fainting — a dead faint that switched off all the animal 's faculties . |
| 7 | He put a hand under her arm and turned her towards a silver-grey Rolls that took up all the parking space outside her shop . |
| 8 | Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it . |
| 9 | The ones that stick out all the time , they I suppose that is good . |
| 10 | It is usually somewhat easier to insert link fields to handle overflow — particularly when they are already available in the records — than to move up all the records on a track to accommodate a record in its correct sequence . |
| 11 | It 's got some arithmetic in the program that works out all the angles and then it draws them . |
| 12 | The librarian selected the remaining titles and filled in all the order forms . |
| 13 | The medical officer of an institution was , subject to the direction of the management committee , to visit and attend the inmates regularly , and to carry out all the duties of his predecessor with additional duties laid down by the Act . |
| 14 | She screwed the cap back on her lipstick case , rolled her lips together , dabbed at the corners with a violet tissue , then snapped shut the mirror-case and zipped up all the contents of her cosmetic-bag . |
| 15 | Somewhere in the ward a bell rang , once : ten minutes to go before the nurses came round and chucked out all the visitors . |
| 16 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 17 | HARPY takes the types represented by its finite state grammar and compiles out all the tokens — the possible utterances in the system — ahead of time . |
| 18 | If someone has to break a window and knock out all the glass it makes even more noise . |
| 19 | Trim and cut up all the vegetables into fine slices . |
| 20 | It seems better to employ the principle of economy known as Occam 's razor and cut out all the features of the theory that can not be observed . |
| 21 | He registered with the DSS and filled in all the forms . |
| 22 | She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention . |
| 23 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 24 | Our negotiator will take the necessary details from you , forward your intention to purchase to the vendor and tie up all the details . |
| 25 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 26 | Grandma laboured for years with her frames and turned out all the mats for the house . |
| 27 | The children chattered and squabbled as usual , and the puppy , pleased with its solitary status , snapped up all the food that was offered and licked out all the plates by itself . |
| 28 | Bicker sighed , and threw back half the beer in his mug . |
| 29 | Then I found a hairdresser and finished off all the washing . |
| 30 | Cherry Vanilla was doing nothing — she was eating fruit and breaking out all the time as a result , Jane was doing nothing too — she 'd started a group called Queen Elizabeth which played little , low-life funky bars on the Lower Eastside , Tony Zanetta was working coding , which is a very ignominious job that out-of-work actors do in New York , and I was working at 16 Magazine as a tea boy . |