Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 2 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 3 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 4 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 5 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 6 | God knows I 'm a failure , an insignificant speck of human nothingness trampled on indifferently by every casual passer-by , thought Dyson as he followed his wife out of the kitchen into the living-room , with his fists clenched in his trouser pockets and his face set in an unyielding frown , but there is one thing in this world that I 'm not going to stand for , and that 's being nagged by my wife . |
| 7 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 8 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 9 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 10 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 11 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 12 | And they 'd go down right over the main road , right over the fields , over the railway , through the fields along the beach there . |
| 13 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 14 | Or not unless they join in wholeheartedly with the other lot . |
| 15 | She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes . |
| 16 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 17 | He is staring down gloomily into the central quadrangle of the campus . |
| 18 | Humans create niches for wildlife by providing extra pockets of nutrients — comparable to estuaries , where nutrients are brought in naturally from the surrounding seas and landscape . |
| 19 | Managing director David Miller said that the ID interests could tie in nicely with the photo-booth business . |
| 20 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 21 | Imaginative use of the photographs , which include pictures of players , their wives — even their babies , on tour , blend in nicely with the unobtrusive design , a factor which makes the book both readable and viewable . |
| 22 | She let herself down gingerly into the hot water , gritting her teeth as various bruises stung as they came in contact with the heat . |
| 23 | Previously , the results of experience could be handed down only by the slow process of it being encoded into DNA through random errors in reproduction . |
| 24 | There is something quite atavistic about a group of people sitting down together to a good dinner . |
| 25 | He was standing there , at the window , looking down thoughtfully through the broad crowns of the trees . |
| 26 | Often found to be needed in vigorous , robust , healthy , rugged people and in children : they come down suddenly with a violent illness , a raging fever etc . |
| 27 | A lump came to her throat and she sat down suddenly on the safest-looking chair she could find . |
| 28 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 30 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |