Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled the shirt on but made no effort to button it . |
| 2 | Visitors young and old let their hair down and enjoyed the entertainment , which ranged from clowns and bouncy castles to computer games and a disco . |
| 3 | I remember planting my foot down and hearing a snap . |
| 4 | She did n't answer , just put her foot down and sent the Cortina faster and faster through the night . |
| 5 | to make sure they 're alright then they switched the telly on and fetched a couple of , the adult programme . |
| 6 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 7 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 8 | Once under 178 knots you get the gear down and lower the flaps ten per cent ; then under 122 knots lower full flaps and maintain ninety knots to the threshold using around 25 per cent torque . |
| 9 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 10 | Regular exercise and a sensible diet will help keep your weight down and reduce the risk . |
| 11 | " Distractedly , he began to change hammer , pouch , pipe and matches from hand to hand , dropping them and picking them up , before finally deciding to put the hammer down and stuff the rest into his pockets . |
| 12 | I am under pressure from a wide range of general practitioners to bring the list size criterion down and to extend the range of care that can be purchased by GP fund holders . |
| 13 | Pour the garlic vinaigrette over and toss the salad , then serve immediately , scattered with cress . |
| 14 | Taking the empty teacup , Gran went out , switching the light off and closing the door . |
| 15 | Lay the plaice on a board skinned side up and place a strip of salmon on top , patching with more salmon , if this becomes necessary . |
| 16 | Erm do the zip up and tie a bow in those strings . |
| 17 | 5.2 The Project Manager shall also be responsible setting up and maintaining a mechanism by which operational changes in the Project thought necessary by any of the Parties are submitted to the Project Committee for approval . |
| 18 | Then she took a syringe out and gave the boy an anti-tetanus jab . |
| 19 | The first time she wore it , Nigel kept his coat on at a party so that he could hold the side out and cover the vision . |
| 20 | Turn the cover right side out and insert the cushion pad . |
| 21 | She tore the photograph out and shoved the rest of the newspaper into the dustbin further along the road . |
| 22 | What he had to do now was stretch out and take the hand of friendship being offered to him . |
| 23 | Just when you 're looking forward to pushing the boat out and having a spending spree , your sensible side reminds you of all the practical and prudent things you should be doing with any extra money you have . |
| 24 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 25 | He wrenched the wheel round and rammed the gate , the bullets now ripping into the air around him . |
| 26 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 27 | He finished one lap down but had every reason to be proud of a fine drive in his first Formula One race since 1991 . |
| 28 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 29 | put the lettuce in and put the tomato in |
| 30 | Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time . |