Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method will depend on the variety so look out for a good reference book , such as Pruning by Christopher Brickell , £7.99 , Mitchell Bleazley — part of The Royal Horticultural Society 's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening series . |
| 2 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 3 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 4 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 5 | His candidacy thus went forward to a second round run-off scheduled for June 3 , in which his opponent would be an unexpected late entrant Alberto Keinya Fujimori , 52 , of the newly formed Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement who received 24.62 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | The first drivers through — Guy Edwards , Lunger , the bearded Harald Ertl — leaped from their cars and tried to rescue Niki , but it was the old Ferrari driver , Arturo Merzario , a tiny figure usually decked out in a cowboy hat , who simply waded into the flames and undid Niki 's harness : not a second too soon . |
| 7 | The horse still searched desperately for a footing in the soft , moving earth of the cliff-side and Maggie felt that every bone in her body was jarred as the flying hoofs found what they sought . |
| 8 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 9 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |
| 10 | My mind automatically shying away from a truth that I could n't accept . |
| 11 | The light now dies down to a mere flicker of ‘ fire ’ , appropriate enough considering the onslaught of death imagery with ‘ death-bed ’ , ‘ ashes ’ , ‘ expire ’ and perhaps , again , ‘ consumed ’ . |
| 12 | On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence . |
| 13 | The agent then walked away with a constable , ostensibly in arrest , but whether they spent the day over the brow of the hill twiddling their thumbs I can not say . |
| 14 | 7 The defender then follows up with a reverse punch to the spine . |
| 15 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 16 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 17 | Once in a while , however , mud from the ridge above slipped down in a turbid cloud , carrying with it all kinds of small creatures and dumped them there . |
| 18 | If you are losing patience just get out for a walk . |
| 19 | It is a world of high camp comedy and low-life sex , a world in which a drag queen eventually ends up with a rent boy . |
| 20 | Got some at home apparently tucked away in a piggy bank or something . |
| 21 | It was just after ten in the morning , yet the sun already blazed down from a vast , deep blue sky that seemed washed clean of all impurities . |
| 22 | The transport consultants Oscar Faber TPA will develop work already carried out for a study on short-term measures in the Forth area . |
| 23 | The arrow formation soon broke up into a ragged line , with Premiere on the outside , pampering on the inner and Upper Gumtree still just in front . |
| 24 | The modern stockman thus approximates more to a ‘ farm technician ’ than the old image of the ‘ farm labourer ’ . |
| 25 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 26 | By 1984 , the Prudential Trophy had metamorphosed into the Texaco Trophy , and the first game at Old Trafford contained the finest dish ever served up in a one-day international . |
| 27 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 28 | Her voice had risen and the child now sat down on a low chair and quickly took off her shoes , then pulled her grey stockings down over her knees before , standing up , she asked , ‘ Will you unhook me , please ? ’ |
| 29 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 30 | Despite this happy event , the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start . |