Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Strontian , Loch Sunart comes to an end and the A.884 , a narrow road , branches from the A.861 to round the head of the loch , travel along its southern shore for some miles and then cross the moorlands of Morvern to its terminus at Lochaline , a small coastal village with castle ruins nearby and a seasonal car ferry to the island of Mull . |
| 2 | It must have been within inches of the goal because when Swift collected the deflection , he was running along his own goal-line for dear life . |
| 3 | Enjoy the exercise of doing this well , so that a harmony of sound takes over your gentle voice for two to three minutes . |
| 4 | For the cuddly 34-year-old has found her Mr Right after setting up her own agency for larger ladies , Plump Partners . |
| 5 | She 'd never even pushed her finger up her own arse for sexual purposes . |
| 6 | A minnow , called the satinfin shiner , purrs , the cod grunts , while the haddock 's love song resembles a motorbike and it will keep up its unmelodious call for 20 minutes at a time . |
| 7 | As the mines of Central and Southern Africa set up their insatiable demand for cheap black labour , labour-recruiting agents and organizations scoured African areas for labourers . |
| 8 | Since most of them have been in the army of the Lord for many years , church members will no doubt want to give up their best rooms for these dear people . |
| 9 | The children responded by making up their own problems for each other . |
| 10 | Or can I take out my own policy for half the mortgaged sum , or £50,000 ? |
| 11 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 12 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 13 | But a long-running dispute by benefit staff forced the council to put back its own deadline for thousands of outstanding benefit claims . |
| 14 | We ran up to the firing range one morning to try out our destructive techniques for real . |