Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er at Christmas time and the new year time , we can let our hair down and sing the old traditional ballads , maybe |
| 2 | It rejoices in the unrivalled might of Israel 's God , the creator of the world , and in his habit of turning human affairs upside down and bringing the powerless to positions of strength . |
| 3 | The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane . |
| 4 | One further adopted measure thus was to offset the carriageway or create a chicane by using planting on one side only and switching the right-angle parking from one side to the other ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 5 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 6 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 7 | This seems to be caused by a powerful muscular spasm in the vagina that locks the erect penis fast and bonds the amorous couple like Siamese twins . |
| 8 | But let us now alter the lexis somewhat and consider the following three words in association : |
| 9 | If we take his timescale literally and approach the late 1870s and 1880s , and merely flick through the pages of Punch magazine — a sure guide to the pulse of respectable discontent in Victorian England — we have an uncanny experience of déjà vu , assailed by complaints of assaults by ‘ roughs ’ on London 's underground railway system ; riotous holiday excursions ; ‘ brutal assaults on elderly females ’ by frightful characters such as ‘ Burly Jack ’ , ‘ Bloodstained Bill ’ and ‘ Smashjaw Ned ’ ; the streets already disfigured by fights involving ‘ the too free use of that popular institution the British boot ’ . |
| 10 | Cover ( lid or foil ) , reduce heat to moderate and cook for 20–25 minutes , undisturbed , then turn browned potatoes and garlic over and cook the other side for a further 25 minutes or so . |
| 11 | When he 'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth , tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end . |
| 12 | ‘ Wednesday : Lunch out and watched the new Murray Arbeid collection for Hartnell . |
| 13 | We then had to drive the machine back and unload the rented van . |
| 14 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 15 | For two line currents flowing in the opposite directions ( Fig. 3.5(b) ) , we may write Ampère 's law twice and add the magnetic fields or add the vector potentials . |
| 16 | I just ran Con again and to add the new bar to see if that be back one disappears . |
| 17 | It may then be better for his welfare to sever contact with the family of origin completely and enable the substitute carers to assume the full parental role . |
| 18 | Turn work again and repeat the two rows continuously . |
| 19 | ‘ B12 , ’ said Ymor , tossing the little phial aside and unrolling the tiny scroll within . |
| 20 | Mortgage advice — how to arrange the money for your house purchase quickly and get the best bargain , without being sold a life assurance policy that you may not need |
| 21 | McLeod called the rest of the team together and asked the entire squad if they had access to prescribed drugs . |
| 22 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |
| 23 | I then turned the picture round and completed the other two sides . |
| 24 | Right after tea Gower became Waqar 's fourth victim when he left an off-side laser-beam alone which changed course slightly and struck the off stump : 59 for 4 . |
| 25 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 26 | He bent his head down and gave the little hedgehog a big wet lick right on the nose . |
| 27 | The advantages of friendship are that you have someone who can help you in any difficulties , you can have fun together and share the same experiences . |
| 28 | Holding my back straight and clutching the plaited strings that had once been reins , I felt as intrepid as Stark , as hardened as Lawrence , as much the explorer as Burckhardt . |
| 29 | The only real job requirements , as viewers of this week 's repeat of Elizabeth R will have noticed , are the ability to smile , nod your head sympathetically and offer the occasional bland comment . |
| 30 | To my surprise , the singer gave me a friendly nod before throwing his head back and tackling the last verses . |