Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 2 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 3 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 4 | American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 6 | The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants . |
| 7 | The average price at which shares sell during this period is somewhere in the neighbourhood of $55 ( more or less depending on the shape of the time-price curve ) . |
| 8 | ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience . |
| 9 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 10 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 11 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 12 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 13 | I used to wonder whether they were actually taking in the meaning of what I was saying , or just listening to the accent . |
| 14 | From swimming in one of many pools or boating on the lakes , to riding , tennis , hiking or just soaking up a mountain dark tan . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know whether I 'm in shock or just suffering from a hangover . ’ |
| 16 | Or else try charging around rudderless in Wayfarers , wobbling on windsurfers , toppling off Toppers , or just tippling in the bar watching our safety boats tending the tipped . |
| 17 | It was hard to see if he was amused , or just squinting into the glare . |
| 18 | Or just running round the school ? |
| 19 | Worse , Intel is likely to cut the price of its Pentium chip during the next two years — perhaps by one-third or more going by the firm 's past behaviour . |
| 20 | For Welsh parents , the demands of either or both working outside the home resulted in considerable emphasis on the infant 's sleeping time . |
| 21 | The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards . |
| 22 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 23 | Still guarding his little pile of sticks no doubt , or even jumping over the broom with a Romany . |
| 24 | Nevertheless if the vein deteriorated , then they stood to come out of their term ( usually , but not always , two months ) , with scarcely enough money for food or even owing to the company . |
| 25 | This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute . |
| 26 | HCI Clubs offer activities to suit every age and every taste , from tennis to volleyball , pedalos to windsurfing , or simply lazing on the beach ! |
| 27 | ‘ You will fix this house , Um Yusef ? ’ the Sheikha asked as we sat in the family majlis , the small children tumbling over her lap like puppies , pushing themselves up for kisses , or simply basking on the warmth of her body . |
| 28 | Hot and cold plunge baths were provided and it was the custom to move from one room to another , sometimes bathing , sometimes playing games or exercising , or simply relaxing in the warmth and enjoying oneself . |
| 29 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 30 | Much of the new material is detector-found … perhaps from a declared hoard , or maybe coming into the museum as a solitary find . |