Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed remarkably near : a flat blue sheet , crawling as in Hong Kong with the skeins of hidden currents , stippled and rippled by breezes , and turning brassy gold where it met the horizon on to which the sun was now setting fast . |
| 2 | As soon as the salmon had passed between the prongs and into the net , he would scoop the net up triumphantly to inspect the size of the catch . |
| 3 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 4 | As his opponent re-checked his position , Hill whipped the ball out to Rob Andrew having brought himself that extra second of time . |
| 5 | I said , ‘ It 's a th-th-th- ’ and I whipped the 3-iron out of the bag . |
| 6 | His caddie whipped the flag out , but the ball slid four feet past . |
| 7 | In desperation he whipped the knife back to his good left hand and lunged forward with the blade extended before him . |
| 8 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 9 | Robyn whipped the sauce around viciously in the pan and was frantically trying to think up some caustic reply , when Luke interjected smoothly , ‘ Robyn 's not an acquaintance , Melissa . ’ |
| 10 | Do you need to give some free line because the chub are sucking the bait in from a considerable distance ? |
| 11 | I think Bryony likes erm Smarties because she 's always sucking the juice out of beans . |
| 12 | Dissolves stop it from sucking the liquid back again . |
| 13 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 14 | Prevention is better than cure , and the sensible thing to do is to physically shield the mike , either by angling the shot out of the wind , or by getting an assistant to shelter it bodily . |
| 15 | Kicks the dent out . |
| 16 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 17 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 18 | The Harpy is able to evade blows aimed through the bars of the cage , and missile fire is at a -30 penalty ; if you wish , missile fire has a 10% chance per missile of freakishly breaking open the cage door , allowing the Harpy out ! |
| 19 | Some contracts , however , have cost-escalation clauses allowing the passing on of any increased costs . |
| 20 | The Freshwater Fisheries ( Scotland ) Act , allowing the setting up of a Protection Order for catchment areas ; and several of these new orders are now in force , including one covering the Garry and Tummel Catchment Area . |
| 21 | Deprived of attention , the dog should then quieten down quite quickly , and ultimately behaviour of this kind can be overcome if you then return home without allowing the dog out of the vehicle on this occasion . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it provided Harold Watkinson with just the precedent that he needed to swing the pendulum back into the centre of the spectrum of war . |
| 23 | But Yeo emphasised the guidance was not meant to swing the pendulum back . |
| 24 | The temptation to swing the trolley round to face the other way had to be resisted . |
| 25 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 26 | The golfer must be in a position to swing the club back . |
| 27 | ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week . |
| 28 | With amateurs there 's no point in paying , they 're likely to kill the victim off anyway , out of fear . |
| 29 | That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know . |
| 30 | Then — this was the really weird part — he asked if I would stay the night round there . |