Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 2 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 3 | His first sale is a deliberately mixed bag affair of mainly Belgian provenance , including eighteenth-to nineteenth-century objets d'art , tapestries , tribal art and furniture with a number of Belgian items sent up from Paris and one hundred pieces of Far Eastern porcelain from a Belgian collection . |
| 4 | Maggie , who usually avoids eye contact for too long , keeps her face steady on mine . |
| 5 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 6 | It also reduces startup time to under 40 seconds . |
| 7 | Similarly , someone who is primarily in a bulimic phase of the disease may binge on lettuce or on other foodstuffs that have particularly low calorie value and weight-producing potential or may even control body weight by dramatically reducing fluid intake . |
| 8 | Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 per cent of its working population employed within its boundary . |
| 9 | Lothian is also a well defined employment centre with nearly 92 per cent of its working population employed within its boundary . |
| 10 | Simply expressed , a relatively poorly supported centre party with well under 20 per cent of the vote , but with some eighty or so seats , would invariably be in government ; would be in a position to determine whether Conservative or Labour were drawn into government with it ; and would , therefore , be able to exert an influence over the direction of public policy out of all proportion to their votes and support in the country at large . |