Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the two of you are standing and balanced together , pivot slowly around towards the toilet or bed , making sure that the person 's knees are prevented from bending . |
| 2 | Prick all over with a fork . |
| 3 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 4 | leer lopsidedly out of the window |
| 5 | A vile joke — he could as well sprout wings and fly straight up to the sun as find that sum ! |
| 6 | To overcome this problem one enterprising manufacturer now produces narrow contoured baskets which fit snugly on to the shelves of all popular designs . |
| 7 | Hands still clenched into defensive fists , she watched him jump lithely on board the launch , fire the engine , manoeuvre expertly out into the creek . |
| 8 | I walk right up to the end of the platform . |
| 9 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 10 | Their obsessive story is told in graphic detail as they sail merrily along on an ocean liner . |
| 11 | Walk straight on to the Slavata Palace . |
| 12 | Some weep publicly ; others walk high up into the stands and sob quietly . |
| 13 | Sit cross-legged on the floor and ease forward out of the hips . |
| 14 | The non-subjective reader saw Laz ( in the third person ) bump into the pillar and stumble blindly on across the lobby of the Butcher Building , clutching his skull . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , ‘ the earoles ’ are the ‘ respectable ’ students who obey the rules , get the better jobs but remain low down in the schoolchildren 's own counter-culture . |
| 16 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 17 | Cycling was the backbone of the Meet right up to the start of the Fifties , but then , says Alan Wilcox , the motor car came within the reach of the working man and that led to the decline of cycling clubs . |
| 18 | Not all of them are strictly mid-ocean — some of them run right up to the continents — but together they form a world-wide network of mountain belts far higher ( above ocean floor level ) and more extensive than any on dry land . |
| 19 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 20 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 21 | Well it 's not because as I say , they actually park right on to the roundabout . |
| 22 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 23 | Teddy all made up to go out was a cross between Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth — her red-gold hair a mass of curls , false eye-lashes long enough to sweep the streets , face entirely out of a box ( courtesy of the American PX ) , and fully fashioned grey silk stockings which were strictly not Waaf issue . |
| 24 | Run away on to the streets ? |
| 25 | ‘ I know people who travel way out of the area to dig for worms and they end up having their vehicles smashed by other anglers . |
| 26 | Gemmell straight on to the head of Hill and Thomson dispossessed by Gemmell . |
| 27 | Fabrics with horizontal patterns will also give the impression of width , and curtains that are draped back will help to break the vertical line that would otherwise be formed by curtains which hang straight down at the sides . |
| 28 | The doors of its red brick terraced houses open straight on to the pavement . |
| 29 | Charities would be better off encouraging people not to send cards at all , and instead post the money they save straight off to the begging bowl of their choice . |
| 30 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |