Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was seducing her already , pulling her close , and there was nothing she could say or do to still the instant leaping hunger he incited . |
| 2 | They encompass all kinds of visual material and account for both the aesthetic and non-aesthetic response . |
| 3 | Hong Kong , Hong Kong , Beats the Chinese Heart , a Viewpoint touring exhibition by Simon Buckley shows the mix of traditional and modern lifestyles in Hong Kong and looks at how the Chinese community has attempted to recreate the atmosphere of Hong Kong in Manchester ( until 2 Mar ) . |
| 4 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 5 | In Britain , the 1980s idea of plural funding , that is funding from a variety of sources , was a great stimulus and pulled in money and support from outside the public sector . |
| 6 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 7 | The new piece should be thoroughly dried , and tailored to approximately the right shape and size . |
| 8 | Next he 'll decide to go and look at how the new crimpling machine is working in the Wayfarer Bay . |
| 9 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 10 | Note that regimental champions are always assumed to be armed and equipped in exactly the same way as the rank and file members of the regiment . |
| 11 | U2 are not a pop group like The Undertones , although their music is driven and energised by exactly the same instinctive romantic desire — wish fulfilment . |
| 12 | The human capacity to grow and develop from even the smallest seed of hope is a constant miracle . |
| 13 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 14 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 15 | The draw of gold attracted men from all parts of the world to a region with an inhospitable climate and provided with only the crudest amenities . |
| 16 | The existing members were told you can either join the new scheme with its improved benefits , reduced contributions , with certain rules that were operating in favour of the employer that were against them , but it was a balancing act , or if you do n't want that you can stay with the old scheme and continue with exactly the same terms . |
| 17 | We drove on and saw from afar the short 11th hole , a stern test with the wind coming up . |
| 18 | My reaction to it now is to take all the delays off and play with just the straight guitar — do something different ! ’ |
| 19 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 20 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 21 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 22 | The County have done initial work on this and come to exactly the same conclusions which we have . |
| 23 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 24 | Being a mere 60 inches wide you can dart and squeeze into even the smallest of gaps . |
| 25 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |