Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn the lights down and gather round a roaring log fire , or log-effect on the electric heater if you 're in a smokeless zone . |
| 2 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 3 | As the population grew land rents soared , multiplying sixfold between Emancipation and the turn of the century , thereby enabling the nobility to cream off and fritter away a huge surplus from peasant labour . |
| 4 | She tore the tissue paper off and held up a little polythene envelope , with two silver fist-in-a-bag ear-rings inside . |
| 5 | Which Nick 's chewed up and spat out a Hula Hoop with water added . |
| 6 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 7 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 8 | I sat in the café as the rain showed no sign of letting up and drew up a short list of people I had met with whom I could air my perplexity . |
| 9 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 10 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 11 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 12 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 13 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 14 | His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face . |
| 15 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 16 | Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance . |
| 17 | Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water . |
| 18 | Rogers put them back and took out a New Testament . |
| 19 | Howard reached back and pulled out a double-barrelled shotgun . |
| 20 | But erm , I woul what , erm , I also , the Hotel , we bought that the same way , they were selling that back and making quite a fair bit of profit , investing the money in arable land . |
| 21 | Like most twiners , dodder exhibits either equal growth all around its cylindrical axis , which yields a relatively straight vine , or grows unequally , which allows it to coil around and climb up a linear object such as a host plant . |
| 22 | We 're racing round and cobbling up a makeshift plan . |