Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his surprise , when he reached the office he found the green car drawn up outside and the Prince about to go in . |
| 2 | Several teachers suggested the re-introduction of group membership as they felt the change over had caused many not to renew and teachers did not seem able to keep track of those who did . |
| 3 | The absence of a train-shed from the Gare d'Orsay was symptomatic of the change about to overtake station-building . |
| 4 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 5 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 6 | The runner up receives £50 in vouchers . |
| 7 | I took the afternoon off to see Ireland ( land of my birth ) illustrate just why Man City are a pile of shite , and then the agony of the evening . |
| 8 | Today men from the Thames Valley force took the afternoon off to join a national protest in London . |
| 9 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 10 | So the zinc comes along pushes the hydrogen out takes its two charges off it as well |
| 11 | After some time , and the lighting of matches , I got the snake back covered in fragments of crisps , popcorn and cigarette ash . |
| 12 | In his innocence he had allowed the salesman in to discuss doors . |
| 13 | ‘ We put the contract out to tender and were overwhelmingly impressed by Bookpoint , ’ Mr Webb said . |
| 14 | The continued unbroken trust in the Führer down to spring 1941 rested in no small measure on the lack of serious interference of the war in the conditions of ‘ everyday life ’ . |
| 15 | He might also have considered himself a very lucky man , as an actor of limited range who made his screen debut in the classic High Noon ( 1952 ) , playing the harmonica-playing member of the gang out to kill Gary Cooper . |
| 16 | Crossing sets of stitches tend to draw the work in and to prevent this in part and to make crossing the sets of stitches easier , it is usual to run at least one stitch at either side of the cable down to form a ladder . |
| 17 | Mick was drilling , he put the framework round to drill up against |
| 18 | For which they were as glad of his comyng As fowel is fayn whan that the sonne up riseth . |
| 19 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 20 | A late rally dragged the index up to close at 18,560 , still off more than 1,000 on the week . |
| 21 | When Errol removed the rollers , he brushed the hair through to give a soft , natural-looking style that took his client by surprise — she had n't realised how versatile her one-length hair could be ! |
| 22 | In many instances , the first reaction of parents was to take the user along to see the family doctor . |
| 23 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 24 | You had the lawnmower out did you ? |
| 25 | Keep the noise down thank you . |
| 26 | The Electricity Board will tell you what you need to bring the installation up to scratch . |
| 27 | Switch the camcorder back to record mode , check the white balance and set the focus to auto so that you can concentrate all your attention on the picture . |
| 28 | Should the model start to move away , into wind , sideways , your natural inclination will be to pull the stick back to stop it . |
| 29 | Smith 's was a well-taken goal as well , Peter Murray 's perfectly timed pass springing the offside trap to send the striker through to put Portadown 2–1 up in 27 minutes . |
| 30 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |