Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 4 | Some devices for keeping costs low are employed and these can , where required , provide up to an extra 20% of expenditure : a popular ploy is to purchase stationery in advance and then resell it cheaply to the candidate as second-hand stock . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its devotees felt badly let down by an earlier boom set off by ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ , a 1980 film starring John Travolta . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Put in on an unyielding wicket , Colwyn were heavily indebted to all-rounder Glyn Gibbons whose 26 not out averted total batting humiliation . |
| 10 | It is also taking a 49.9% stake in Swedish food company Bake Off for an undisclosed sum . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Paint on oil-based paint , then partially rub off for an antiqued look . |
| 14 | Flats ( 1970 ) rules sequence down to an absolute minimum and spatializes the narrative by creating Beckett-like ‘ characters ’ who are personified place-names . |
| 15 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The lovely oriel windows , the shapely gables , the cobbled streets , the carved doorways , the murals and frescoes , all add up to an artistic totality . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington 's past . |
| 22 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 23 | You creep along to an open doorway . |
| 24 | Measure up for an outer framework , based upon sawn timber , 75x25mm . |
| 25 | Most people provide small items set out on an open plan system , which gives the children a great deal of choice . |
| 26 | She was to find out that something would startle her like this and then quieten down to an apparent normality , only to find that she had really been shaken up into accepting an entirely unnatural situation and adapting it to the flow of her life . |
| 27 | Sounds Like Birmingham — the city 's church bells ring out in an ambitious music festival , to mark Birmingham 's year as UK City of Music ( 021–235 1992 ) . |
| 28 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 29 | What I did in the circumstances was go off into an Ollieish riff about je ne sais quoi , keeping Stu achortle without waking the fair Gillian . |
| 30 | turn up with an empty seat . |