Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 2 | Such juries bring together on an integrated basis a variety of relevant experience and opinion . |
| 3 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 4 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 5 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 6 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 7 | Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta . |
| 8 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Put in on an unyielding wicket , Colwyn were heavily indebted to all-rounder Glyn Gibbons whose 26 not out averted total batting humiliation . |
| 11 | It is also taking a 49.9% stake in Swedish food company Bake Off for an undisclosed sum . |
| 12 | As major appliance makers gear up for an expected world market for ‘ green ’ refrigerators , FORON is the first to offer a fridge completely free of so-called chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 13 | They abound now at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 14 | You could tackle the island 's one and only hill south of Es Calo , stop off for a welcome break at El Mirador and as you cool off with an iced drink , take in the panoramic view . |
| 15 | Paint on oil-based paint , then partially rub off for an antiqued look . |
| 16 | David Albury and Joseph Schwartz ( ’ Why the safety lamp increased accidents , ’ 10 February , p 362 ) add little to an oft-told tale . |
| 17 | Each June a group of Duannians meet together for an informal reunion . |
| 18 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 19 | Margery had a particular devotion to this saint , whose Revelations she had heard read aloud in an English translation . |
| 20 | Flats ( 1970 ) rules sequence down to an absolute minimum and spatializes the narrative by creating Beckett-like ‘ characters ’ who are personified place-names . |
| 21 | ‘ It does n't , ’ she said , ‘ sound much like an Irish name . ’ |
| 22 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 23 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 24 | THE effect of recession on UK dividend pay-outs makes Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust 's name seem more like an unsustainable ambition — for the time being , at any rate . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The lovely oriel windows , the shapely gables , the cobbled streets , the carved doorways , the murals and frescoes , all add up to an artistic totality . |
| 27 | The other day I watched this character , uncertain whether or not he would be taken , drop instantly into an amazing role . |
| 28 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 29 | Among the cool colours and short sleeves look out for an imaginative crochet trim — daisies , worked separately and set into open spaces left in the knitting . |
| 30 | Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington 's past . |