Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He put the sack back and strewed some dead leaves over it .
2 Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits .
3 We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in .
4 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 .
5 I caught the Corporal up and pointed this out .
6 We do n't , we turned the valve off , we take a bunch of newspapers and put it on top of the bricks , then we light the newspaper , then we go back and turn the valve on and let this hundred octane mixture of oil drip on the bricks and it would burn .
7 They turned the telephone down and spent most of the evening at the cinema .
8 Every so often they 'd come down and they 'd take the bung out and put more water in .
9 Cameras and sound recording equipment were discreetly sited in the shop so as to record all that occurred over the counter .
10 If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models .
11 Many would also argue that this process has continued into the community , with a greater proportion of people with complex care needs now remaining in the community rather than entering some form of residential care .
12 They do not have to be repaid and may be awarded to those leaving hospital or residential care , or to help people to continue to live in the community rather than enter such care .
13 The apostle there that wrote that letter has quoted a verse from somewhere out of the Hebrew has n't he ?
14 Because we are dealing with running speech , the articulatory loop should seldom be used in dealing with the source language ( unless it is in an abbreviated code ) — a simultaneous interpreter will claim to analyse the meaning directly and have little knowledge of sound features in the source language .
15 He threw the umbrella away and said many bad things about policemen .
16 In the same way , we have the message on the beam behind me , ‘ Glory to God ’ ; and there are several places in the service today that use those words .
17 This court has extensive powers under section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 to reverse or vary the order or decision of the court below and make such other order as may be just .
18 It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time .
19 The poorest buy goods on a daily credit basis at high interest rates and , if they are unsuccessful with their sales , are forced to lower their prices towards the end of the day so as to have enough to pay back the loan .
20 Make the soup and dessert the day before and serve some green beans or spinach with the lamb .
21 The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living .
22 I lay the rod down and spend another two or three minutes feeding maggots into the swim .
23 In essence their class position often forces them into using the environment destructively and inhibits any adaptive response to its inevitable deterioration .
24 In many lawyers opinions such phases reduce the viability of the warranty totally since to prove such knowledge etc. is virtually impossible .
25 I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ?
26 Anywhere we were c clearing the river up because blocked that , one Summer day and it was very hot for about a month or so .
27 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
28 In a famous study , Zimmerman and West found that whereas same sex dyads ( pairs ) share the floor equally and interrupt each other rarely , in mixed sex pairs there is a marked asymmetry .
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