Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 2 | In just under a month 's time , Saturday June the fourteenth to be precise , the university will be holding its Silver Jubilee Open Day . |
| 3 | PRAISE and cash poured in yesterday after the Mirror 's shock issue on Somalia . |
| 4 | I liked Brahms 's youthful B major Trio for its wholly natural flow — as if the players were carried along willy-nilly on the music 's own tide . |
| 5 | muscle just came down here like a woman 's breast . |
| 6 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 7 | far down there on the valley 's floor I heard |
| 8 | From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th . |
| 9 | ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’ |
| 10 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 11 | When he 'd finished , the attendant stuck the chamois leather in his belt with a flourish and leaned down again to the driver 's window . |
| 12 | And with two TV networks now competing for a UK cable channel , a similar service is set to take off here by the year 's end . |
| 13 | Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine . |
| 14 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 15 | Well the centre is made up largely of the president er and the congress but the congress is made up of politicians elected from the states local , local politicians locally accountable . |
| 16 | But not really frightened , buoyed up always by a child 's invincible courage , the courage that comes from a sense of immortality . |
| 17 | And of course , they had these signs up about la up close to a signal er twenty , twenty five or thirty or whatever it was , that was miles an hour , they were supposed to reduce to that . |
| 18 | Brother Rhun , youngest and freshest and the flower of the flock , went after his nature , asking no leave , and kneeled beside Jerome , circling his quaking shoulders with an embracing arm , and lifting the hapless penitent closer into his hold before he looked up confidently into the abbot 's face . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you got any food ? ’ said Adam hoarsely , hunching up sideways in the driver 's seat . |
| 20 | Rigby was surprised when Gedge turned up beforehand at the town 's Tesco stores where she had a Saturday job . |
| 21 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 22 | ‘ Trussed up tight as a smack-smuggler 's arse ! ’ he muttered . |
| 23 | His present may trigger the inevitable family festive fall-out usually breaking out somewhere between the Queen 's speech at three and the Christmas cake at five . |
| 24 | These badges were handed out only on a nurse 's last day in the hospital , after she had taken State and Hospital Finals and accumulated a sheaf of satisfactory ward reports . |
| 25 | Figures out yesterday from the Government 's Central Statistical Office show that banks took in £60m more in repayments than they lent out . |
| 26 | Detectives here are trying to find out more about the man 's business activities , to establish why he was killed . |
| 27 | Some LEAs employ teachers to visit families with a pre-school child before they start school , usually for about an hour a week , to play with the child and involve the parents in finding out more about the child 's development and needs . |
| 28 | She was killing two birds with one stone , she thought cheerfully : she really did feel sorry for Veronica , and keeping in touch was the only way she 'd find out more about the woman 's relationship with her husband . |
| 29 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 30 | BUSINESSES in Middlesbrough are finding out more about the town 's success in City Challenge . |