Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 5 | Cos he 'll have to say mass somewhere every day |
| 6 | Tolkien furthermore no doubt noted that Malory 's insensitivity in this respect ( a common thing in medieval writers ) had not led necessarily to failure . |
| 7 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He , he was thrilled because he he got er , his name on the board so the head |
| 11 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 12 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 13 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 14 | And an hour down the golf range . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And he got the sack so the firm came on strike . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | In the far west all the witches of West Cornwall supposedly met at Zennor and re-pledged their Satanic allegiance around the dying embers . |
| 21 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 22 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 23 | Although the nose is a little higher and power a bit less the landing is still straightforward . |
| 24 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 25 | It entails beating up some chicken eggs , putting them into a syringe and squirting the uncooked scramble down the bird 's throat . |
| 26 | During selection with malathion and IBP , resistance gene frequency of a stock of Culex quinquefasciatus decreased at the same rate as untreated mosquitoes , whereas with malathion alone the resistance gene frequency increased fourfold in three generations . |
| 27 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 28 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 29 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 30 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |