Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home .
2 This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics .
3 The troops , expecting to be ‘ home by Christmas ’ after a few gallant cavalry charges , held an impressive open air church parade in the Recreation Field and in late August the town gave a lively send off to a detachment of the ‘ Kings Own ’ .
4 Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank .
5 Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ?
6 If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now .
7 From his discovery things had followed an inexorable path , like the water 's tight spiral down into the whirlpool 's mouth .
8 Will it give a constant read out through the day ?
9 However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue .
10 I think I w ill wander in round the lawn , out of the light .
11 It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out .
12 Next remove all the old putty from both parts of the joint and give the metal surfaces a good rub down with a wire brush and , if necessary , abrasive paper before applying two coats of bitumastic paint .
13 Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 .
14 Now is the time to have a really good clear up in the greenhouse .
15 But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ?
16 ( 1989 ) report that , in a five-year follow up of the population aged 65 + in Leicestershire mortality rates of 87 per cent for the demented and 36 per cent for those without the condition .
17 I stop too ; climb the natural embankment and look over the homeward stretch down to the pueblo .
18 ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film .
19 And when I saw the Aged come in with a lady , I knew I was right .
20 When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’
21 Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing .
22 chopped clean off by the blade
23 A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population .
24 The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque .
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