Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 2 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 3 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 4 | Moreover , few types of resource-based learning are as clearcut as perhaps they sound to the newcomer ; there is always the possibility , indeed the likelihood , that at any one point the teacher may find it necessary to intervene , to establish a point , to correct a set of errors , to reinforce an insight , or to bring in an additional set of experiences , including the experience of argument and group debate while the interest is hot . |
| 5 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
| 6 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 7 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 8 | Thus Tony Benn , in June 1975 and three months into his tenure as Secretary of State for Industry , summed up what this volume is all about — his vain attempt to persuade government and Civil Service to implement Labour Party policy and bring about an irreversible shift of power and wealth to the working class . |
| 9 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
| 10 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 11 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 12 | I wafted down the face and traced out an elegant arc with my bottom turn , squirting a fountain of spume from my rail as I flew back up and pirouetted on the lip . |
| 13 | The nuns joined the lemmings and darted over an immense cliff called apostolic activity . |
| 14 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 15 | By following the course of the stream overland and looking over an intervening wall , the immense crater of Braithwaite Wife Hole will next be seen . |
| 16 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 17 | A purse net positioned and staked over an inconspicuous bolt-hole . |
| 18 | They are thus more ‘ moral ’ or , as he can also say , more ‘ teleological ’ than Islam , for they discern and hold out an ethical purpose and direction for human life . |
| 19 | Main rival Jan Zelezny picked up the spear and pounded out an 83.96 metres with his first and only effort to lead the field . |
| 20 | Gran 's stick lunged at it and dug out an ugly lump . |
| 21 | In those days , the road leaving Tomdoun was the only way over to Cluanie and Glen Shiel from the south : it crossed the River Loyne and climbed over an intervening ridge before descending to Cluanie . |
| 22 | It was accepted that Amnesty International would investigate and draw up an adverse report . |
| 23 | Pupils are able , through reading and responding to literature , to develop an understanding of and control over an ever-widening range of written forms . |
| 24 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 25 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |
| 26 | Patrick opened the wardrobe and pulled out an old army kit bag . |
| 27 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 28 | We climbed the grassy Tor and looked round an unbroken horizon while the island lay at our feet . |
| 29 | and blot out an entire scene . |
| 30 | She opened her handbag and brought out an astonishing assortment of cosmetics , with which she daubed my face . |