Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important question in this area awaits a final answer : if , on its proper construction , the statutory authority exempts the undertaker from Rylands v. Fletcher liability and imposes only an obligation to use due care , upon whom does the burden of proof lie ? |
| 2 | The payer must send the payment in a properly stamped envelope , enclosing the plaint note or summons ( or otherwise clearly identifying the plaint number ) and enclosing also a self addressed envelope so the court can return a receipt with the plaint note or summons ( if sent ) . |
| 3 | Remote from universal nature , and living by complicated artifice , man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion . |
| 4 | Voters were asked whether they wished to change the current system — by which voters indicated four candidates from their chosen party in a descending order of preference — and to use instead a system allowing one vote for one candidate only . |
| 5 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 6 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 7 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 8 | Rescuers found the red Datsun embedded in the tree and took almost an hour to free the men using hydraulic lifting and cutting gear . |
| 9 | Gabriel crawled off into a corner and scrabbled together a nest made out of costumes and coils of rope , and curled up in the centre of that . |
| 10 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 11 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 12 | The crooks drove into the factory at Slough , Berks , and towed away a trailer containing £36,000-worth of the bars . |
| 13 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 14 | Queen 's finally began to play in the final quarter , but had only a consolation try from Ireland A out-half Davy Humphreys right on full-time to show for their efforts . |
| 15 | The young man scanned the paper , held it out , and as James 's fingers reached for it , dropped it , eyed him , and said in a carrying voice , ‘ I see you are mad , but does even a lunatic suppose that one of His Majesty 's officers would bind himself to oppose the law and refrain from arresting criminals ? ’ |