Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 32 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 33 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 34 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 35 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 36 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 37 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 38 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 39 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 40 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 41 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 42 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 43 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 44 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 45 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 46 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 47 | Nevertheless , adoption of the bill was only pushed through after an angry demonstration outside the Supreme Soviet building on Aug. 18 in protest at blatant delaying tactics by Gumbaridze . |
| 48 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 49 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 50 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 51 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |
| 52 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 53 | Merely pushed along throughout the final quarter-mile by Ray Cochrane , the Luca Cumani-trained two-year-old kept on well to finish fourth , beaten only four lengths . |
| 54 | Martha 's school dress and books , her one skirt , two blouses and handful of frayed underwear were swiftly parcelled up in the coarse paper Nana used in the shop . |
| 55 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 56 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 57 | I have seen beheading done too early and too suddenly — with the result that the still not perfectly united bud is literally pushed out by the sudden flood having nowhere else to go . |
| 58 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 59 | I think was er er erm Mr Thomas , and I think perhaps hinted on by the Senior Inspector as well , er what is , what is Greater York ? to do with Sylvia , erm |
| 60 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |