Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 2 | Ross Wyndham was all that she had tried so hard to forget — and more : tall , lean , dark and almost painfully attractive , his tanned skin darkened further by the thick black hair , which was swept back like a lion 's mane over his well-shaped head before sweeping down to curl over the top edge of his collar . |
| 3 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 4 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 5 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 6 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 7 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 8 | When Helen came in to help with the spaying operation she looked rather nervous . |
| 9 | It seemed closer but it was an illusion and there was a lot of up and down to do before the final climb to this high headland point on the south coast . |
| 10 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 11 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 12 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 13 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 14 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 15 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 16 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 17 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 18 | Your correspondent went on to speculate about the likely cost of reinsuring through this vehicle the 1982 account of syndicates 317/661 , managed by this company . |
| 19 | The stories are painful and shocking , but the book goes on to talk about the urgent need to ’ resist the false promise of reproductive technologies ’ and on the positive side , re-thinking fertility and infertility , and working toward women-respecting alternatives . |
| 20 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 21 | Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed . |
| 22 | Jason Spiteri sped unhindered up the right in the seventh minute and prolific goalscorer Alan Brett ran through to connect at the near post , giving the keeper no chance . |
| 23 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 24 | To answer this they brought the sodium iodide detector over to look for the tell-tale gamma rays . |
| 25 | Normally , the owner must take the cassette out of the machine by hand , and flip it over to record on the other side . |
| 26 | ‘ Buzzing , ’ he replied , turning the couchette over to get at the narrow bed . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We do n't judge our progress by the results we achieve , rather by the number of players who eventually go on to play for the full Ulster side . |
| 28 | It is important to note , before going on to look at the main body of legislation in detail , that prior to 1980 , when insider dealing first became a statutory offence ( by virtue of Part V of the 1980 Companies Act ) , the legislative means of curtailing the practice was limited to disclosure provisions contained in general companies legislation . |
| 29 | Having touched on the difficulties of the past year Mr Vernon went on to look at the remarkable successes : |
| 30 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |