Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 2 | The designation is a form of landscape protection only and has little value in nature conservation terms . |
| 3 | If he failed to turn up , the Commissioner had the power to hear the plaintiff 's case only and give immediate judgement on it . |
| 4 | Police and motoring organisations urged drivers to keep their speed down and take extra care as freezing fog gripped the country . |
| 5 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 6 | The child had to take the card home and get different fabric cuttings from her or his Mum . |
| 7 | Diana drafted her reply carefully and made several attempts at matching the frosty tone which Philip had used in his . |
| 8 | Teachers working in the three phases of education ( primary , middle , secondary ) seem to have experienced the review differently and have different attitudes towards it and towards SSE in general . |
| 9 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 10 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 11 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 12 | Educated women seem to be at a particular disadvantage because they are expected , and expect themselves , to accept the loss gracefully and suppress irrational feelings associated with a process which is not unlike mourning . |
| 13 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 14 | By 1330 hrs it is complete and I 've managed to throw some lunch down and grab another brew . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of people are saying that the board must get its act together and get some money to spend . |
| 16 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 17 | unless the local printer 's very cleaver somehow and got that advertising to sponsor er the booklet they 've had to charge for it . |
| 18 | If you write a fair amount , and read your work critically and let other people criticise it , you will get better . |
| 19 | Read through your work carefully and correct any errors you find . |
| 20 | Read through your work carefully and correct any errors you find . |
| 21 | Every so often they 'd come down and they 'd take the bung out and put more water in . |
| 22 | He pushed the bottom half of the window upwards and swung one leg over the sill . |
| 23 | In a study by Mayes into various measures of testing the readability of guides , he found that guides were jargon-filled , unappealing etc and suggested many ways in which they could be made more readable . |
| 24 | In a similar revolutionary manner Paracelsus confronted the contemporary craze for seeing witchcraft everywhere and claimed this phenomenon for psychiatry . |
| 25 | We then left Gt Yarmouth for another attempt at a passage northward and found less wind but a nasty swell outside the harbour . |
| 26 | Poor , pathetic old man , he thought , watching as his Uncle Walter picked up his pen again and consulted some notes , preparing to conclude his long chronicle of the family . |
| 27 | Once basic definitions have been established , individual groups or companies can take the work forward and do specific implementations — for a Motorola Inc processor , a DEC user or an SVR4 file system , for example . |
| 28 | Also the arms , and in particular the front one , should be straight since not only is this less tiring but it keeps the rig upright and provides more power . |
| 29 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 30 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |