Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules , the die flipped onto a point , spun gently and came down a seven . |
| 2 | Turn the lights down and gather round a roaring log fire , or log-effect on the electric heater if you 're in a smokeless zone . |
| 3 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 4 | She seemed to have got her act together and held down a steady job as a capstan lathe operator in a local tool factory . |
| 5 | Tom Farmer , chairman of Scottish Business in the Community , who chaired the meeting , promised that all the organisations of which Prince Charles was patron would now quickly get together and work out a strategic plan . |
| 6 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |
| 7 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 8 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 9 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I play tonight and put in a solid performance , hopefully he would n't look upon it as me doing a job just for one game . ’ |
| 11 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 12 | So , shortly before noon , Molly trusted Mr Corduroy with her money and at six o'clock when she was in the kitchen opening a packet of cornflakes for Jacqueline 's supper the tap , left on , coughed discreetly and loosed off a generous gush of what looked to her like particularly clean and upmarket water . |
| 13 | ‘ To be honest , Koke , ’ he says , leaning forward confidentially and letting out a few vapour jets from behind his ears , ‘ I think you overestimate your potential as a thorn in the corporate side . |
| 14 | You too , ’ he said to Sammy who was panting rapidly and sending out a constant spray of water with his tail . |
| 15 | DESPITE the encouragement of 65 degrees of bright Sardinian sunshine , Italy and Argentina contrived a predictable bout of pre-World Cup shadow boxing here yesterday and played out a dull if meaningful draw in a match dominated by the defences . |
| 16 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 17 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
| 18 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 19 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 20 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 22 | Mrs Mantini straightened up and puffed out a last breath of her garlic-and-onion lunch . |
| 23 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 24 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 25 | His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face . |
| 26 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 27 | Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance . |
| 28 | Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said , shaking himself ; , ‘ we 'll have the vigil here the night before and put up a permanent display inside the church . ’ |
| 30 | Rogers put them back and took out a New Testament . |