Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 2 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
| 4 | Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance . |
| 5 | Halfway up , the stream poured out from some hidden source and fell in a silver smoke down to a pool . |
| 6 | He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand . |
| 7 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 8 | Put your collage piece face down on a wad of white kitchen paper and paste the back . |
| 9 | So what , how did the racing industry get on during the war . |
| 10 | Tears at Halifax , where Hereford 's win meant the Yorkshire side go out of the football league . |
| 11 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 12 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 13 | Our home 's eight coconut support-trunks were planted upside down so that they continue , even in death , to draw moisture from the roof thatch down into the ground , where it belongs . |
| 14 | He left the room abruptly before anyone could respond , and it was only when Belinda heard his powerful car start up in the driveway that she realised he was n't coming back . |
| 15 | The beds in the dormitory pull down from the wall and have hard plastic mattresses . |
| 16 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 17 | Swanwick Junction signal box , the former Kettering box , is the scene for the tablet change over between the signalman and the driver of 55015 . |
| 18 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 19 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 20 | Quite a few ‘ do n't likes ’ from around the office on opening the carton ; the wider front , squarer edges and lack of the traditional Fender rake back for the control panel take most of the criticism , although Fender 's spindly new knobs , which no-one here much cares for , received their share of whinges . |
| 21 | And at the Liverpool Empire , London Contemporary Dance arrive back in the city tomorrow after an absence of some years . |
| 22 | He loped across the bar , swinging his hips to show off his twin Colts , and got his polished pseudoleather boot up on the bar . |
| 23 | Does humanity go out of the window when a woman security guard is trained ? |
| 24 | The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels . |
| 25 | Bukharin pointed out that many features that characterise Primitive accumulation carry on into the history of capitalism itself , yet they do not thereby mean that capitalism is forever stuck in that particular stage of development . |
| 26 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 27 | Then when we got to the sawmill I 'd stay close beside Uncle Bill watching him sawing and planing , keeping well away from the saw , until midday when the mill shut up for the week . |
| 28 | The ejecta volume exceeds the volume of the impacting body , usually by a large factor , and because little of these ejecta fall back into the crater the crater will also be larger than the impacting body by a similar factor . |
| 29 | In the summer , athletics , cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports . |
| 30 | The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again . |