Example sentences of "the [adj] [coord] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs attempting to sack the professional and take over the shop to earn revenue can expect no support from those in the business . |
| 2 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 3 | He would attempt the impossible and set up an airline from scratch in three months . |
| 4 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 5 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 6 | By contrast her bowl curled in a perfect arc from the left and finished up a foot from the target , keeling over on to its side . |
| 7 | They turned off sharply to the left and headed up a straight , sloping road between sombre stands of oak and beech . |
| 8 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 9 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 10 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 11 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 12 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 13 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 14 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 15 | By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech . |
| 16 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |