Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 2 | After the first length is fitted , work along the gutter in the same way until you come to within 2m of the corner of the house . |
| 3 | ‘ Disco gear ; we have the most fantastic make-up and we dance along the catwalk to the most way-out music , which Roman has had specially composed . ’ |
| 4 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 5 | Did the girl from Aberdeen really say , " Och , no , not on the table ! " as my father flattened a bluebottle with his hand , and did he really put down a newspaper on the same table to eat his breakfast ? |
| 6 | If there 's already a working phone line at your new address , and you arrange to take over the service on the same day as the old customer disconnects , it will be re-connected free of charge . |
| 7 | Morris translated sagas , the Irish took over the business for a few years ; Henry James led , or rather preceded , the novelists , and then the Britons resigned en bloc ; the language is now in the keeping of the Irish ( Yeats and Joyce ) ; apart from Yeats , since the death of Hardy , poetry is being written by Americans . |
| 8 | The relationship between capitalist and non-capitalist modes is one of exploitation , in which the former creams off the surplus from the latter . |
| 9 | The agent usually starts off the party with a few games , to help people get to know each other . |
| 10 | It also emphasizes the need for ‘ money-spinning ’ enterprises if the smallholder is to rise above a very bare subsistence living and pay off a mortgage at the same time . |
| 11 | The felt need to get the cleaning done conflicts with the desire to be sociable ; one can iron , or perhaps cook , while talking to a friend or neighbour , but one can not wield a vacuum cleaner and carry on a conversation at the same time . |
| 12 | Once they came upon Acorn , who was evidently being taken on a tour of the same kind . |
| 13 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 14 | Deliberately confrontational , Bishop sets up the heist on the same night as the DJ contest . |
| 15 | The punctuation in the line ‘ of deafening tunnels , brakes , innumerable bolts ’ , seems almost to describe the ‘ brakes ’ and ‘ bolts ’ of the train while breaking up the sentence in the same pattern . |
| 16 | To make them easier to serve , we 've firmed up the mixture with a few fine cake crumbs so that they do n't melt the moment they hit room temperature . |
| 17 | Even a novice can pick up the art with a little practice . |
| 18 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 19 | After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours . |
| 20 | That 's why I 'm trying to fill up the gap with a few concerts , but of course I 'm not good enough for the big dates , it will be mostly provincial engagements . |
| 21 | Make up the lining in the same way as the curtains , but machine all hems . |
| 22 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 23 | Zeta ( 3.8 ) , Pi ( 4.9 ) and Omicron ( 4.6 ) make up a triangle in the same × 7 field ; Omicron is decidedly orange . |
| 24 | Close to Deneb is the little group made up of Omicron¹ ; ( 3.8 ) , Omicron² ; ( 4.0 ) and 32 , which make up a trio in the same × 12 field . |
| 25 | An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards . |
| 26 | But the way he works at his game , do n't rule out the possibility of a few more wonder balls this summer . |
| 27 | Many grounds of public law illegality do not rule out the making of the same decision again . |
| 28 | As we did not perform endoscopy in this control group , we can not rule out the inclusion of a few patients with gastritis . |
| 29 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 30 | TEM recently sent out a circular to the many hospitals with their machines , asking them to look out for uranium dust . |