Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University . |
| 2 | The sun blazed in and lit upon a large , broad-shouldered , shaven-headed man . |
| 3 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 4 | Because I felt extremely low , and needed company , I telephoned Esme on Wednesday evening , the day Father died , to ask if she would come out for a canoe ride from the Aquatic Club to River Park , but she said she must stay in and practise for a forthcoming piano recital . |
| 5 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 6 | To relax would mean giving in and conceding to a common prejudice which does nothing to enhance women 's esteem . |
| 7 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 8 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 9 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 10 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 11 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 12 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 13 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 14 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 15 | If you go down and ask in a polite way , then you might get what you want . |
| 16 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 17 | At the same time Gwalia House was closed down and replaced by a quaint shop in the historic market town of Shrewsbury . |
| 18 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a short while . |
| 19 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 20 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 21 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 22 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 23 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 24 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 25 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 26 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 27 | Afterwards , lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 28 | Afterwards , lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 29 | Afterwards , lie down and relax for a few moments . |
| 30 | The Biolife filter functions well , although as the PFK test Review Update pointed out recently , the tiny suckers which the filter hangs on seem to give up sucking and can allow the filter to drop down and submerge below a critical level . |