Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A regime whose ‘ raison d'être , prestige and pride rested on its claim to defend Russia 's standing in the world ’ was singularly ill-equipped to back down or even postpone a reckoning with the Central Powers . |
| 2 | When he died in June from cancer , investigators from Liquidators Cork Gulley were called in and soon smelt a rat . |
| 3 | Looking for excitement and with little thought for his family , he steals a friend 's car , knocks down and badly injures a girl and is taken to court . |
| 4 | Pons sat down and hastily wrote a manuscript for a ‘ preliminary note ’ entitled ‘ Electrochemically Induced Nuclear Fusion of Deuterium ’ . |
| 5 | That was probably the most , the in , the most interesting form friendship in there , its fucking good , I went for a job in there , but I could n't I was an apprentice , as I say that , that 's what got me going really was the fact that he had to go down and actually do a design of the and he had to work on the |
| 6 | Having a vehicle break down and then struggling a mile down that pot-holed strip of mud you call a road is n't my idea of fun , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 7 | All she wanted was to sit down and maybe read a book . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean that you 've known all along and never said a word — ? ’ |
| 9 | I thought Trevor was actually going to hit him , but the first assistant came over and courageously tore a strip off Brynner . |
| 10 | Get your coat on and just stick a drop of that stuff in . |
| 11 | We carried on and eventually devised a plan . |
| 12 | Yeah we do a we went over there and loaded them all on and then got a puncture in the trailer , ! |
| 13 | When we reached the house , however , he rummaged about in the office for a while complaining that he could never find anything on Dee-Dee 's days off and eventually brought a paper into the dining-room , plonked it on the table and instructed me to sign . |
| 14 | ‘ Watch your step in future , ’ he rasped in warning , standing up and irritably balancing a bag or two against his leg . |
| 15 | The production model for the 1990s has been cleaned up and now looks a lot smarter , particularly at the front . |
| 16 | When it spots an insect on overhanging vegetation , it lines itself up and then shoots a jet of water from its mouth to knock the insect out of the air . |
| 17 | I think I 'll wash up and then have a cup of tea . |
| 18 | The following afternoon — i.e. the day the Germans made their most menacing gains — he telephoned that the attack had ‘ slowed down and it looked as though we would be able to hold out and even make a counter-attack ’ . |
| 19 | My , you have done a lot with your life … is n't it funny how one kid growing up in some little town will branch out and really make a name for himself . |
| 20 | And about ten minutes playtime running round the yard , come back and maybe have a history lesson . |
| 21 | Also , the opponent may fall in an unexpected direction , so that you have to spin around and perhaps take a step to reach him . |
| 22 | First , however , we consider briefly what may happen further upstream , partly to illustrate how the long memory comes about and partly to make a link with earlier discussions of wakes ; i.e. we look at the ‘ intermediate wake ’ , ( intermediate to the ‘ near wake ’ immediately behind the obstacle and the ‘ far wake ’ which has become self-preserving ) . |
| 23 | Israel Hands could move about and now had a weapon , and he was going to try to kill me . |