Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 2 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 3 | Ramsay early on made use of a drapery painter to fill in the clothes , as in the portrait of Dr Richard Mead . |
| 4 | This is fundamentally useless and it is amazing that anyone ever manages to get a properly aligned document as a result . |
| 5 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 6 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 7 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 8 | She furiously grasped hold of a clump of soggy weed and after more slipping and sliding finally managed to heave herself out . |
| 9 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 10 | Working in Grendon must be one of the most difficulkt places for an officer becausec we 're telling them they 're not dependant on their uniform but their personality and ability to relate to people . |
| 11 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 12 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 13 | He was in the grip of severe constipation and was only eating fruit in an effort to clear himself out . |
| 14 | for proceeding from the premises of a manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles to a place from which it is to be transported by train , ship or aircraft or for proceeding to the premises of such a manufacturer , repairer or dealer from a place to which it has been so transported ; |
| 15 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 16 | Truth to tell , the arrangement did n't look particularly promising : the Bowl resembled something for kitchen use , plain fired ceramic , large enough to whip eggs for a couple of soufflés . |
| 17 | she feels he is common , poor boy and he does n't even realise that Miss Havisham is actually only using Estella as a tool , a beautiful tool , to break men 's hearts and to get her revenge on the male sex . |
| 18 | I am only using jumping as an example . |
| 19 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 20 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 21 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 23 | His steady stream of speeches , interviews and policy interventions only make sense as a bid for the leadership . |
| 24 | But many commentators have long regarded synergy as a will-o'-the-wisp , arguing for the strategy of critical mass in selected global markets that ICI has belatedly adopted . |
| 25 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 26 | The American boy , he saw , was puffing out his cheeks and making loud trumpeting noises in an attempt to emulate these feats , and it was this comic performance that was causing the Annamese boys to shake with laughter . |
| 27 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 28 | Experience has shown that it is not enough to train PHCNs for a year and then send to isolated rural clinics . |
| 29 | He said of the Nicaraguan literacy campaign : ‘ literacy only has meaning in a society undergoing revolutionary change ’ . |
| 30 | The office was small enough to provide experience in a range of areas , covering a wide variety of companies from subsidiaries of large plcs to sole traders . |