Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 2 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 3 | Air is either recirculated through a charcoal filter ( included in the price ) or vents out through an outside wall suing the optional New World Ducting Kit . |
| 4 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 5 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 6 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 7 | Wild Ethiopian coffee is spicy and blends well with a rich coffee such as Colombian or Javanese . |
| 8 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 9 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 10 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 11 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 12 | At one point , at some point , very late , the old man breaks away from his partner , and spins easily on a shiny patch of yellow floor , his long arms folded to his sides , not dancing at all now but simply spinning , spinning , for quite a while . |
| 13 | The spacious lounge has a bar for a relaxing drink and leads out onto a surrounding , shaded terrace . |
| 14 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 15 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 16 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
| 17 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 18 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 19 | Doug Sherry , the proprietor of Doug 's and the car-wash that camouflages its entrance , winces and puffs philosophically on a fat cigar . |
| 20 | Although the path at this stage is packed solid with shuffling picnickers , it 's a beautiful little track , especially when it emerges from the gorge and opens up into a wide glen where the Allt Coire a' Mhail tumbles to the Water of Nevis via a narrow and dramatic waterfall . |
| 21 | Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers . |
| 22 | Rainbow freezes them all into silence with a daredevil lanecrossing manoeuvre , and pulls up with an intentional lurch in a crowded lay-by . |
| 23 | The old eight-valve , four-cylinder 115 bhp engine still retains a quiet refinement , revs willingly and pulls away with a clean pick-up . |
| 24 | Eventually the blue shift declines to zero and changes over to a red shift . |
| 25 | Vertical Technologies Inc released Scan-One , a device driver that decodes bar-code types and plugs directly into a serial port for SCO Unix . |
| 26 | This uncompromising line by the main resistance groups implies that the USSR would need to maintain a political and military commitment to any Afghan regime which includes a PDPA component and emerges out of an international settlement . |
| 27 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 28 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 29 | It might be explained by the fact that the toxin is effective from the luminal side and binds irreversibly to a particular membrane receptor . |
| 30 | He dots my ticket and moves away with an interrogatory stare . |