Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 2 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 3 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 4 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 5 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 6 | A FRESH wave of confidence swept through the market yesterday and boosted the FT-SE 100 Index back through the psychological 2,700 level . |
| 7 | Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design . |
| 8 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 9 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 10 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 11 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 12 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 13 | As they approach London they let down through the shining white floor of cloud into a dull grey light . |
| 14 | There is a process in chemistry called ‘ denaturing ’ — when food is microwaved , for example , and its component parts break down into a smooth warm mass . |
| 15 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 16 | At Ullapool the midday early November sun was low in the sky , white gold fanning down into the sea beyond Scoraig peninsula ; An Teallach hid its snow caps , cut off by a cool indigo-grey cloud . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 19 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |
| 20 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 21 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 22 | Managers line up in the good old Miss World tradition as their units ' achievements — sales figures to you and me — are read out in reverse order and the best one is presented with a sash . |
| 23 | Climb up into the first lost valley viewing the towering cliffs of Sgor Chionasaid and Sgor a' Bhatain on either side . |
| 24 | And if you go round , particularly the steep slopes on the margins of Ashdown Forest , not on Ashdown Forest itself but when you climb up from the very flat erm plain area of the Low Weald onto the so-called High Weald , then that area in particular is very subject to , to this type of activity . |
| 25 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 26 | It will be argued in later chapters , for example , that processes within state enterprises act back upon the wider political context and modify its impact . |
| 27 | Can he compare these facts about the national health service with the fictions put out by the Labour Front Bench ? |
| 28 | . Walk around with the whole bloody classroom . |
| 29 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |
| 30 | CREAMY : Cool off with a Vivoli special |