Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 2 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 4 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 5 | She finishes what she is doing , gives herself a resolute shake and lets the sea breeze dry her , rises slowly , pulls her dark blue tights up in an unhurried manner , and adjusts her skirt . |
| 6 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 7 | As your journey takes you into the lush splendour of the Dee Valley , one landmark in particular stands out in a dazzling blaze of colour . |
| 8 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 9 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 10 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 11 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 12 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 13 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 14 | The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source . |
| 15 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 16 | Tom put the blacks up in the front room , crashed around in the darkness and lit the gas and oil lamps . |
| 17 | Erm now in my wisdom I I thought that obviously considering we 're now classed as incident stewards the o the thing to do was to put the certificates up in a prominent place so that everybody who visited the site knew who were the incident stewards were . |
| 18 | Dugard , who has been an international for five years , lines up in an experimental team against an Australian side weakened by injury . |
| 19 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 20 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 21 | The structure of any model of the type described above can be captured in the general formulation where is all the autonomous elements and collects together all the coefficients on in the specified model ; i.e. , in the case presented above . |
| 22 | They can be the ‘ power behind the throne– , using what power they have to its fullest potential : analysing situations , forming appropriate alliances and putting messages over in a palatable way to the right audience . |
| 23 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 24 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 25 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |
| 26 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 27 | Hereford wrapped things up in the second half . |
| 28 | In their defence , Oxford did pick things up in the second half , Druce did all the running , Walker placed the header , but Salmon was n't going to let the match slip through his fingers . |
| 29 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 30 | I have n't shifted them , i n't it a mucky day ? considering all that frost and cold you 've got a lot of families out in the front door there ai n't we ? have you got any tapes of ours not finished off ? , or have we got to start a new one ? |