Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes : comments on events within the text . |
| 2 | He did , and with a most impressive gargling technique rarely heard outside a waste disposal unit , coming up for air to declare the stuff just as peculiar as could be expected , ‘ as no two bottles are ever the same ’ . |
| 3 | On Jan. 9 , however , only days after it had begun , the Brazilian Justice Minister , Gen. Saulo Ramos , announced that the operation had ended , a decision widely seen as a concession to mining interests . |
| 4 | Yet such direction rarely happens in a vacuum . |
| 5 | The house had been furnished with a lot of money badly spent in a mixture of styles . |
| 6 | Ten minutes later , dressed in aqua-coloured jogging pants and a white T-shirt , her hair vigorously tamed into a ponytail and with trainers on her feet , Lindsey stepped out on to the crew deck into bright May sunshine and a temperature of seventy degrees . |
| 7 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 8 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 9 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 10 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 11 | In cases involving the supply of goods ( which is the only case where consumer status makes a difference to the effect of a term in a standard term contract ) the definition is , of course , restricted by the third limb of the definition of " consumer " : the buyer only deals as a consumer if the goods are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 12 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 13 | She was forced back as the bark opened and the hardwood below parted like a wound . |
| 14 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 15 | The car eventually crashed into a bus stand , Durham Crown Court was told . |
| 16 | It is a curious comment on Thatcherism , however , that the administration most committed to a reduction in the role of the state , and in the need for an independent private sector , has spent more on specific urban regeneration and employment schemes and incentives to private investment in urban areas than any other in recent history . |
| 17 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 18 | An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm . |
| 19 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 20 | Although you have to cart the cylinder around with you , there is a bonus in that a blowtorch can be used upside down to get under a pipe which is being fitted in situ ; turning a cartridge-fed blowlamp upside down can cause problems as it will flare . |
| 21 | Newsagent Jeff McKenna who runs a shop in Murray Street , Hartlepool , wants local traders and residents to club together to pay for a policeman to patrol their area exclusively . |
| 22 | A horse naturally shifts from a walk to a trot , and then to a gallop , Taylor 's team found , at the speed where each pace begins to cost it more than the minimum amount of oxygen . |
| 23 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 24 | But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . |
| 25 | You feel light enough to float on a cloud … |
| 26 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 27 | The violence apparently stemmed from a campaign , stepped up in March , for the restoration of Ingushi autonomy within the borders of the former Ingush Autonomous Region . |
| 28 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 29 | The car finally came to a halt outside the house , and Jessamy looked around , a small frown drawing her brows together . |
| 30 | When the car finally came to a halt , she looked straight ahead of her , not daring to look at him . |