Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But colour terms frequently qualify only part of the object their head noun denotes ; furthermore , different colour terms may typically apply to different parts , so that , for instance , Mary 's eyes are blue and Mary 's eyes are red are not contraries ( N.B. there is no lexical ambiguity in these sentences ) . |
| 2 | The highly experienced management and staff of Perkins Slade , under the leadership of Mr David Slade , bring anew dimension to the Birmingham Midshires Group and we aim to develop further professional brokerage services to companies and individuals . |
| 3 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 4 | There is also a National Council for Urdu Teaching , formed from two previously existing working parties in 1984 : its termly meetings bring together colleagues from a number of different areas . |
| 5 | Some projects did attempt to establish trade union links at grassroots level : organisations like Coventry Workshop bring together people from a range of causes and struggles in a common endeavour to build connections and analyse the wider context . |
| 6 | They are among the most important disseminators of plant seeds ; and they eat perhaps 90% of the corpses of small animals . |
| 7 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Uniformed police and plainclothes detectives were also present in even greater numbers than had originally been planned after an elaborate bomb hoax only hours before the funeral . |
| 9 | Expect home truths from a youngster or relative on Sunday . |
| 10 | When hardened , refix fittings and buff up paintwork with a silicone polish . |
| 11 | ‘ He is my team-mate and we want both cars on the track . ’ |
| 12 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 13 | Examples XV ( a ) Let unc then its orthogonal matrix X is unc which yields unc We build up L as the product |
| 14 | We send out details to the schools each year , and they will book to bring a party of children round for , oh it lasts about two and a half hours altogether , and they will come either for a morning or for an afternoon . |
| 15 | Imagine the er as an alternative method , you send out questionnaires to a set of gypsies |
| 16 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 17 | Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year . |
| 18 | Press out shapes with a cutter , chill . |
| 19 | Erm somebody , and I think it was Derek , and I put down Derek as a guess , was supposed to be getting a list of local area MPs to whom I can then write . |
| 20 | From a window above me they let down tea in a flask and biscuits as I worked . |
| 21 | As the advert said , ‘ The average price of a tab of Ecstasy is £15 — yet Love Hearts cost only £4.95 for a packet of three — just one tenth of the designer drug equivalent . ’ |
| 22 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 23 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 24 | Taxi rides are cheapest in Portugal , where the cabbies charge only 18p for a one-mile city trip . |
| 25 | In a US property , a guest let off steam to the bartender because his room was not ready and it was already late . |
| 26 | The Burtons let off part of the house and lived in the rest . |
| 27 | The flames shot straight up into the sky , dispersing whatever fog was in the immediate area , and we sat around on bales , as we have always done , while some members of the family let off fireworks in the background . |
| 28 | Break off yarn at the end . |
| 29 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 30 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |