Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 2 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 3 | Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it . |
| 4 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 5 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 6 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 7 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 8 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 9 | She grunted fiercely and set off up the slope . |
| 10 | When Chola was kneading the dough for ro is , tired after a day 's work in the fields , exasperated by the twins ' hungry grizzling , the chickens flapping around the bowl and the dogs ' beady eyes , she 'd lash out , screaming , and the red bitch would yelp exaggeratedly and skulk off to a corner . |
| 11 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 12 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 13 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 14 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 15 | I walked inside and sat down in a hall , whitewashed and cool with a red-tiled floor . |
| 16 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 17 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 18 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 19 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 20 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 21 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 23 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 24 | They did n't want the Yanks stumbling in and screwing up in an attempt to force the issue . |
| 25 | On a pitch of uneven bounce England were put in and shot out before the end of the day for 200 , David Smith , Lamb and Botham the only ones to make an impression . |
| 26 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 27 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 28 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 29 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 30 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |