Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy .
2 Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy .
3 Poise is directly concerned with good deportment ; a poised person does not walk noisily or clumsily , slump in a chair , or sit or bend down in an ungainly manner .
4 The time required to pass a barge up and or barge down in a 50 feet balance lift would be approximately say 15 minutes .
5 I have never seen anyone create a gap in the crowd for one of the nice people , who are stagediving either to have fun or get out of a painful suffocating position in front .
6 However , Trotsky also had to affirm that although the Russian proletariat in power could win the support of the peasantry by appropriate measures , it would be unable to maintain itself in power or pass over to a socialist regime in Russia ‘ without the direct state support of the European proletariat ’ .
7 Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker .
8 I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky .
9 Alternatively when you need to change the paint colour or type , or move on to a different job requiring another size of brush , simply change the brush head to either 1 , 1½ , or 2″ .
10 If nothi if you , you do n't have an external force acting on something it just to remain stationary or , or carry on in a straight line and fixed speed , if .
11 Lions may learn to jump through hoops or sea lions to clap their flippers while balancing a ball on their noses , but lions jump over obstacles in their home territory or laze around under a favourite tree , while sea lions are naturally dexterous , chasing fish with great skill .
12 or come up with a whole so whole position .
13 Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ?
14 Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck .
15 It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast .
16 If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal .
17 To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush .
18 Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies .
19 This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write .
20 So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path .
21 Mr Hodge remembered the seas had been very rough as the crew attempted to rescue the couple , who had been surprised and cut off by a fast moving tide at Huntcliff .
22 The Sergeant galloped past a man and cut back with a savage slash of his sword .
23 For this reason , a Christian marriage is a like an opened door , through which we see new visions , and walk out into a vast panorama we never knew existed .
24 Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night .
25 A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact .
26 But then they had seen a number of man-things leap from the line of vehicles in front of the blazing building , and spread out in a loose line .
27 Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel .
28 As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days .
29 If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material .
30 All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way .
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