Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 2 | Or shacked up with a new girl you wanted to keep to yourself or something . ’ |
| 3 | At the back there is a horizontal belt sleeve which allows it to be attached to a belt up to 70mm wide and there is also a vertical sleeve 50mm wide which permits it to be worn on its side or slid down over a vertical post for use as a permanent fixture at a centre or clubhouse . |
| 4 | The hallway was of a fair size , high-ceilinged and with an oak stairway that led up to a gallery-style balcony . |
| 5 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 6 | The old bill that bounced back like a bad penny . |
| 7 | Jazz is a form of music that came out of a social evolution in black history , and so is rap . |
| 8 | ‘ She staggered and fell ; nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead ; but raising herself with difficulty … breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker . |
| 9 | But , there comes a time in every painting when a clean , new brush has to be used to add detail or to control a passage of the work that started off as a spontaneous accident , or alternatively to lay on a clean glaze . |
| 10 | An invention that started out as a simple toy for children grew over the years to become a lifetime hobby for millions of people . |
| 11 | If the universe is indeed spatially infinite , or if there are infinitely many universes , there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner . |
| 12 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 13 | Gooch played the shot of a weary man , completely foxed by a slower ball from Manoj Prabhakar that drifted in through a large gap between bat and pad . |
| 14 | Hollywood had always been able to recruit actors who could authentically depict urban working men and by the end of the silent era Bickford and Beery had almost achieved perfection in suggesting that kind of independence that grew out of a tough upbringing and an even tougher manhood . |
| 15 | The kiss was achingly sweet , a lingering delicious sensation that spun out in a timeless band of teasing exploration and honeyed conquest . |
| 16 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 17 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 18 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 19 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 20 | The shirt comes right down over the feet , and threaded through with a woollen thread at the ankles , with tassels at the end . |
| 21 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 22 | Jean-Luc Roussel himself had come to the hospital and fretted and fluttered about like a true Cockney sparrow . |
| 23 | One startling apparition a few seats away was masked , and got up like a Chinese mandarin , with clacking claws for hands emerging from generous silk sleeves . |
| 24 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 25 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 26 | Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group ! |
| 27 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 28 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 29 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 30 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |