Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this new , commercial market a major sales point is the energy saving that is possible with central control of heating and lighting , either manually or according to a timed program . |
| 2 | Others claim that projects will be handled better and result in a net saving . |
| 3 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 4 | She spent two weeks inside and returned with a vast stack of photocopied originals and a bill for the astronomical sum of f25 . |
| 5 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 6 | A special set of glassware should be designated for media preparation , rinsed and soaked in double-distilled water immediately after use , washed in double-distilled water only and dried in a hot oven . |
| 7 | A cat inhibits the desire to spring prematurely and controls to a deliberate end its eagerness for the instant gratification of a natural appetite . |
| 8 | I.A. Richards has defined metaphor like this : " In the simplest formulation , when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word , or phrase , whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction . " |
| 9 | Take some of the favourite things that your child likes , mix them together and serve from a warm pot with a ladle . |
| 10 | Either stir or shake the ingredients together and serve in a tall or white wine glass . |
| 11 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 12 | Loopholes had already been made in the stone walls of Gemioncourt 's huge barns which , like the buildings of so many of the isolated farms in the low countries , were joined together and protected by a high stone wall , making the whole farm into a massively strong fortress . |
| 13 | It 's well put together and retails at a competitive price for a four season bag . |
| 14 | But in another experiment 50 two-ton concrete slabs are to be chained together and dumped from a huge tilting steel platform about 6,750 ft above sea level . |
| 15 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 16 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 17 | She felt him lace their fingers together and trembled with a strange mixture of excitement and trepidation . |
| 18 | He was not gone long but returned with a large piece of tree-bark on which was a writhing heap of fat white maggots . |
| 19 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 20 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 21 | At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting . |
| 22 | And for what reason had Sir Thomas Vaughan , his chamberlain , a man he trusted and respected above most , been marched away and imprisoned like a common thief ? |
| 23 | Excursions : Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the Austrian/Swiss border is not too far away and makes for a fascinating destination . |
| 24 | Rain fell heavily ; the plain they were crossing became inundated ; the policeman 's Scotch terrier was suddenly carried away and drowned in a swollen torrent . |
| 25 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 26 | Freckenhorst Abbey Church ( 332 ) is typical , with flanking , circular western towers and a cliff-like central mass with a tiny doorway at the bottom , tiny windows above and surmounted by a tall roof and turret . |
| 27 | The bathroom , having been converted from the front parlour , was downstairs and backed onto a small room at the rear of the cottage in which we kept the hoover , other cleaning materials and spares of this and that , such as light bulbs and rolls of loo paper . |
| 28 | It was carried back outside and loaded into a waiting getaway car . |
| 29 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 30 | Later tombs here have no tumulus above but consist of a single large room cut into the stone . |