Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
2 | Efficient waste management requires that hazardous materials are defined and treated more carefully than the very large volumes of non-hazardous wastes . |
3 | If the casserole is still quite liquid , remove the lid from the pan and simmer more quickly until the sauce is reduced . |
4 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |
5 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
6 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
7 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
8 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
9 | As Savage puts it , ‘ a hundred shares can be organised and directed more easily than a hundred workers ’ . |
10 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
11 | You 're never very far from urban centres but the walk sidesteps and swerves as cleverly as the best Welsh fly-halves to follow a largely rural route . |
12 | Stand the bowl over a pan of simmering water and heat very gently until the chocolate begins to melt . |
13 | Some young men never have really thought about personal hygiene very much and react very badly if the subject is mentioned . |
14 | One particular article written in July issue 1967 called ‘ A Case of the Emotional Painter ’ by Dimitri Dejanikus I take out and re-read more often than the others . |
15 | The Lords does much good work , contains many wise men and women , and acts more disinterestedly than the Commons . |
16 | And George Felse dived forward at the jerking ankles under the archway , felt his way forward towards the knees , and hauled strongly backwards as the roof sagged slowly and ponderously inwards on top of Gus Hambro . |
17 | Y'know , we 've been dead and buried as far as a lot of people are concerned , but this album will put us back up there . |
18 | And run smartly backwards when the tarpaulin comes down . ’ |
19 | The Economist has argued that the council is indeed a senate and ought to debate and vote as openly as a senate . |
20 | Lydia opened the door to let out the cigarette smoke and walked as far as the stream , wondering why the blazes Betty was behaving in so singular a fashion . |
21 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
22 | First and foremost everyone present at an event must be able to see and hear , and the press must be able to see and hear slightly better than the rest without getting in the way of the guests . |
23 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
24 | I locked the shed again and jogged as far as the bridge while I got my breath back . |
25 | Even from the beginning she had lain naked and adoring under the moon and Fenna could come and go as easily as the clouds did . |
26 | I would not normally reveal such matters , and do so only because the hon. Member for Dagenham , who was not present at the discussions , was nevertheless involved in putting out a press release after the discussions . |
27 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
28 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
29 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |
30 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |