Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 3 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 4 | There are those who grow up in a very rigid and often fiercely religious environment , crushed into a mould , dictated by unbending rules and regulations , where little demonstrative love is shown . |
| 5 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 6 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 7 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 8 | The padre goes with them as they leap out into a very boggy field . |
| 9 | We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway . |
| 10 | TELEVISION viewers in the south may soon be seeing advertisements for undertakers , as funeral directors gear up for an increasingly competitive and high-profile market . |
| 11 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 12 | Simply crafted out of dreamy space-flavoured blips and acidic sub-plots , with three New York-ish house choons cut out in a uniquely teutonic fashion on the other side . |
| 13 | So if you 're a third man , or a third woman for that matter , look out for the specially selected hotels at which you can make some fantastic savings when a third person shares a room . |
| 14 | Badly paced , with a familiar climax ( The Silence Of The Lambs meets Cape Fear ) , but if you stay awake look out for the relatively complex treatment of the IRA early on , the Gulf War references and Sean Bean 's sunglasses |
| 15 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 16 | From the Hotel Cavalletto you look out on the most typical of Venetian scenes , as here the public rooms are bordered by a narrow waterfront where gondoliers come and go with their passengers . |
| 17 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 18 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 19 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 20 | Transfer the boat to the cake drum and secure on with a little royal icing . |
| 21 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 22 | Oh now we get on to the really difficult stuff . |
| 23 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 24 | In hibernating animals , the body temperature falls much further , to just above freezing , while heartbeat and all the other bodily functions slow down to a barely perceptible pace . |
| 25 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 26 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 27 | I get up at a rather late hour . |
| 28 | In the latter , agents are organizationally rewarded by how well they measure up to the relatively concrete criteria provided by the enforcement process . |
| 29 | Mr Clark continued : ‘ Now set out in a most scholarly book of some 700 pages , it is probably the important revisionist text to be published since the war . |
| 30 | From a steep ascent you emerge on to a surprisingly large plateau the size of a football field , covered with cairns , memorial plaques , the ruined observatory , and of course the people you left behind on the tourist path . |