Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 2 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 3 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 4 | Coun Dixon said the corporation 's support proves that Darlington is widely considered to have a housing crisis . |
| 5 | Baldwin merely intended to fly a policy kite at Plymouth . |
| 6 | Your mission is to prevent the breakdown of Astra , by pushing water barrels down chutes to reduce the core temperature and reducing the Entropy level . |
| 7 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 8 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 9 | We did n't go in to try to do a hit record , just a documentary , homecoming get-together with a bunch of friends . |
| 10 | Yassa estimates that the loss of salmon and steelhead stocks alone has cost the fishing industry $1 billion over the past 20 years . |
| 11 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 12 | The Doctrine must be seen for what it was — a very political document which had been hastily cobbled together to try to fill the power vacuum caused by the Suez fiasco . |
| 13 | Trite though it may sound , the Pacific , unlike its sister seas , is an ocean of many worlds indeed — and at the same time by being so has become the world ocean , as dominant and all-encompassing as its immensity suggests it has to be . |
| 14 | They tried all day to stem the bleeding but failed , so decided to do an emergency op . |
| 15 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 16 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 17 | ‘ I like to think passengers leave one of my classes feeling fit and ready for anything , not as if they 've personally helped dig the Channel tunnel ! |
| 18 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 19 | The men , who match descriptions of the rapist , have all agreed to give a blood sample . |
| 20 | There was a professional choir as well as the children , and the sound of hymns being so brilliantly performed made the Foundling Hospital chapel the most popular place of worship in London . |
| 21 | My granddaughter is safe at our table with Jane , and in a moment we 're all going to watch the firework display . ’ |
| 22 | You 've got to have somebody that 's , that 's obviously going to save a mortice lock to you . |
| 23 | Already it has a licence arrangement with object maven Hyperdesk Corp and apparently intends to use the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker . |
| 24 | Already it has a license arrangement with object maven Hyperdesk Corp and apparently intends to use the Object Management Group 's Object Request Broker . |
| 25 | For our purpose it is important to note that it merely threatened to dent the Treasury ascendancy over economic policy-making . |
| 26 | Robert Penfold 's advocacy of pulsed controllers for model railways in the April issue should perhaps have contained a motor health warning ! |
| 27 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 28 | This business was all set to flood the club scene with Ecstasy capsules worth around 25 million . ’ |
| 29 | Royal Ballerina , who was runner-up in the English and Irish Oaks , is trained at Ashburn by Michael Kauntze , whose stable jockey Warren O'Connor is not fit enough to ride following an ankle operation . |
| 30 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |