Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 2 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 3 | Choose from a colourful array of mango , star fruit , kiwi and raspberries , to name but a few and add a sprinkling of Sweetex to bring out the full flavour , or use it in recipes for a sweet taste without the calories . |
| 4 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 5 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 6 | This Code of Practice sets out the basic practices employed by Midland Bank and its subsidiary companies in connection with their lending to personal customers in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | There was no sign of any devastation or a struggle , except where the pool of light picked out the broken , gutted cat . |
| 8 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 9 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 10 | Sticky tendrils of rain slithered down the semi-steamed windows of the idling Rolls , encouraging a creeping melancholia . |
| 11 | Gusts of rain lashed down the narrow alleys ; rickshaws sluiced through the water , more like boats than bicycles . |
| 12 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 13 | When , in June 1967 , the Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ was released , UFO , with its light shows , and globules of colour spewing down the old Irish walls , seemed the natural place to go and listen to it . |
| 14 | Now the bare earth was pitted and ravaged and , during the monsoon rains , torrents of water swept down the loosened topsoil , carving out gullies and chasms that crumpled occasionally into landslides . |
| 15 | In the case of Dataease setting up the initial forms is easy , even quite complex forms with many relationships can be set up very quickly . |
| 16 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 17 | On a single sheet of paper write down the main message of the report . |
| 18 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 19 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 20 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 21 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 22 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 23 | Neither the exactions of the Versailles Treaty nor the creation of a republican form of government rooted out the nationalist old guard or revolutionised the German social structure ; within 15 years , Germany was set on a course of revanche . |
| 24 | The peasantry , which comprised the majority of the population in the Middle Ages , had no such comfort , for instance : a small hole left in the wattle and daub , covered with a piece of cloth to keep out the worst of the weather represented a ‘ window ’ to them . |
| 25 | It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation . |
| 26 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 27 | In many cases it obviously would be and if there was any element of duress brought on the other contracting party under the modern development of this branch of the law the proposed breaker of the contract would not benefit . |
| 28 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |
| 29 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
| 30 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |