Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This giant of a racehorse set off in last month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup — one of National Hunt racing 's blue riband events — with a heavy burden . |
| 2 | Johannsen each claimed a Hurricane shot down at 1045 , both in the same location-obviously the Fulmars . |
| 3 | This concerns the stages a case goes through from initial instructions to its conclusion and the physical appearance of the file throughout that time . |
| 4 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 5 | I get a bit fed up with that . |
| 6 | Getting a bit fed up with this weather . |
| 7 | I 'm a bit turned off by some of the things I see . |
| 8 | She gets a bit cooped up in that hotel sometimes . ’ |
| 9 | We can juggle the hours around a bit to fit in with other things . ’ |
| 10 | Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm getting a bit Pissed off with this ! ’ |
| 12 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 13 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 14 | But even so , when Angie first materialised I suppose I was a bit put out for two or three days . |
| 15 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
| 16 | From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis . |
| 17 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 18 | Net income on the group 's £52.3 million of net cash grew from £2.4 million to £4.1 million , with the help of currency gains and a decision to lock in at fixed rates last July . |
| 19 | A secret postal ballot of parents then determines the fate of the school , and once a decision to opt out of local authority control has been taken it can not be reversed at a later date , although there is , of course , nothing to stop a new government introducing a legislation to repeal this provision . |
| 20 | SHEARSON Lehman , the securities house , has sparked fears of a fresh wave of job cuts on Wall Street with a decision to make up to 800 employees redundant . |
| 21 | The Beaver 's 144 cubicfoot interior is divided into a two-seat cockpit and slightly lower 120 cubic-foot four-footwide 52 inch-high main cabin , in which Tony has fitted a pair of three-seat benches , the middle row having a split folding back for easy access to the rear ones . |
| 22 | A gang walking around in public brandishing bicycle chains could have been convicted . |
| 23 | Home Office ministers have asked the Association of Chief Police Officers to monitor the spread of scanners which can detect a radar trap up to three miles away . |
| 24 | Agreement had to be reached with the Northern Cheyenne to film scenes at Lame Deer , Montana , and with Scarvee and Stony Indians for the use of land in Calgary , as well as a contract drawn up for forty Crow Indians to appear in the film . |
| 25 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 26 | There were pubs in London which had a clientèle made up of original skinheads , whose age tended to be above 25 , and at which none of the new boots and braces or plastic skins would be tolerated . |
| 27 | Excavations at the Late Hallstatt cemetery of Donja Dolina on the Save revealed seven cowrie shell beads on a necklace made up of hundreds of amber beads and some made of coloured glass . |
| 28 | She indicates a necklace made up of military insignia to illustrate her point . |
| 29 | A foot above Madame Lacroix 's nodding and smiling head , a fight broke out between two photographers . |
| 30 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |