Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 2 | and that goes right up to the window yeah , and the time that , we had seven firms |
| 3 | It goes right through to the bathroom does n't it ? |
| 4 | If , however , top-selling weekly music papers are more your cup of tea , then this well-worn proverb goes right out of the window . |
| 5 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 6 | Sam said , frowning , ‘ You ca n't have dived out under the curtain , it goes right down to the river bed . ’ |
| 7 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 8 | He drifts slowly up into the air . |
| 9 | A Victorian public building on a grand scale , even if the French top of the tower sits rather oddly on the rest of the classical design . |
| 10 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 11 | We round a corner and the way goes downhill steeply into the valley . |
| 12 | The trouble about Ellis 's preoccupation with crime fiction is that it 's a genre that sits most comfortably in an England that is dead and gone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Mississippi ’ , she says , ‘ goes clear through to the bone . ’ |
| 14 | … which soon flies right out of the window ! . 40% |
| 15 | But it fits less well with a situation in which the ‘ rules ’ under which the negotiation takes place are regularly changed to the extent that the nature of the ‘ game ’ may itself have been changed . |
| 16 | This agrees extremely well with the fact that ( 20 ) is closely equivalent to ( 22 ) : ( 22 ) that is precisely the one It also provides us with a very satisfying explanation of the subtle difference between ( 23 ) and ( 24 ) ; ( 23 ) , with its non-restrictive relative seems at least somewhat odd , whereas ( 24 ) with its restrictive relative is quite acceptable , and so is ( 25 ) which has a non-restrictive relative but lacks the word very : ( 23 ) the very axe , which killed him , is to be sold ( 24 ) the very axe which killed him is to be sold ( 25 ) the axe , which killed him , is to be sold The reason is that the definite article indicates that some means of recognition is available to the audience . |
| 17 | Powerful , yet emotive , and sometimes melodramatic , The Power of One goes all out for the heartstrings with the weight of justice and the inevitability of history on its side . |
| 18 | He glances uneasily out of the window " ( p. 44 ) , but it is also a noteworthy example of his conversational meandering . |
| 19 | The external appearance might be considered typically Japanese — matt black folded steel case , drum feet , extruded black anodized aluminium front panel — yet one pauses : perhaps it has rather less in the way of lights , button and switches than usual . |
| 20 | M103 is in the same × 20 field with Delta , but is not at all easy to identify , and looks rather more like a chance aggregation of stars . |
| 21 | This manoeuvre looks rather more like a tail-spin . |
| 22 | He probably lies somewhere out on the Steppes , together with so many of his companions . |
| 23 | But it is perhaps David Lean 's film of Noël Coward 's Brief Encounter which lingers most forcefully in the mind . |
| 24 | While FIFO corresponds most closely to the way in which firms actually use their inventories ( i.e. the oldest stock is used first ) and corresponds to the actual cost paid for inventories , it ignores the fact that to replace the inventories now costs a great deal more . |
| 25 | Since such a review stands rather apart from the rest of the material , it is presented separately , in Appendix A , where we consider what syntax is and is not , and the difficulties that have beset previous attempts to explain it , of which the principal result has been an implicit acceptance of what may be called the " perspicuity of grammar " . |
| 26 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 27 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 28 | Although the last allegation is regarded with some scepticism by royal watchers , their speculation is heightened because the royal couple have barely been seen to exchange words or glances so far in the tour , even though they have been smiling and cheerful to those they have met . |
| 29 | The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks . |
| 30 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |