Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | I always think of delphiniums as having blooms right the way up the stalk . |
| 3 | On the second day of the trail the trial rather the prosecution said that in interviews with the police the pair had demonstrated a fluent capacity to tell lies . |
| 4 | You have to have all those ingredients and then you must drive at the top of your ability and sustain that level right the way through the Championship . |
| 5 | You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from . |
| 6 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 7 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 8 | Cos he 'll have to say mass somewhere every day |
| 9 | Tolkien furthermore no doubt noted that Malory 's insensitivity in this respect ( a common thing in medieval writers ) had not led necessarily to failure . |
| 10 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 11 | This could allow the court , as in the Goodwin case , to order a reporter to reveal his notes so the company whose information was leaked would know who to sue . |
| 12 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 13 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 14 | All the barracks were demolished , leaving within the defences only the granaries , now enclosed inside their own compound , the headquarters building and the commander 's house . |
| 15 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 16 | He , he was thrilled because he he got er , his name on the board so the head |
| 17 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 18 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 19 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 20 | In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young . |
| 21 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 22 | Useful points to look for are cord/cordless functions and travel cases so the shaver can be charged up and used while travelling . |
| 23 | And an hour down the golf range . |
| 24 | Earthquakes assisted the destruction and the land silted up so that by the Middle Ages only the capitals of the columns stood above ground and the forum 's name ( Campo Vaccino ) reflected its purpose — grazing land for cattle . |
| 25 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 26 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 27 | And he got the sack so the firm came on strike . |
| 28 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 29 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 30 | Public affairs , local authority , government , financial , and charity public relations all call for different talents so the people working in these areas often have very different educational backgrounds and work experience from those doing consumer public relations . |