Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm er so far my list of what we 're going to do this week includes for Derek erm fi tracking down non-local copies of Yellow Pages by phoning people and hassling people who are about to go home . |
| 2 | — check your machine for any controls that have more than one setting ( e.g. the TV set may have a control for selecting TV or video , the switch on U-matic players selects audio channels 1,2 or mix ) ; |
| 3 | Sitting at peace in the garden of their ranch , high above the Californian resort of Malibu , Marjorie still marvels at the way her life was turned upside down one November night in 1973 , when she was just 19 . |
| 4 | Yeah , he was upside down this morning ! |
| 5 | Down under , the man who 's turned the motor racing world upside down this season . |
| 6 | Claire Taylor turned the form book upside down this time though … she took control early on and went on to win 6-1 … |
| 7 | Even if you go to a 424Mb disk for $4,800 — £4,060 — you still have plop down more bucks for more RAM . |
| 8 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 9 | Erm we 've heard about the measured approach , the step by step approach er and Mr , has said , please make your mind up one way or another so we can proceed with our local plan preparation . |
| 10 | ‘ Spewed me ring up all night , then I went and rode me bike into that mooring rope over there , ’ he indicated further up the dock . |
| 11 | The decision to centralise Pirelli 's European account into one agency follows the setting up last year of a marketing department to handle European strategy . |
| 12 | That , sort of , it 's got the , it 's one of those sort of days I think when you 've got lots of cloud about broken clouds , so every now and again the sun will come through and light up different areas of the picture . |
| 13 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 14 | I still hope that I can tie a deal up next week . ’ |
| 15 | Large holds lead up just right of the pinnacle 's rounded southwest arête , until a stretch back left gains a shelf on its undercut edge . |
| 16 | We 've never had the car out all day . |
| 17 | Could n't get my car out last time . |
| 18 | Behind me ring out beautiful howls of rage and anger and fury . |
| 19 | SMITH : ‘ I think the lad deserved a medal , because they won the Cup with half a reserve side out last year — and he was taking care of the reserves . ’ |
| 20 | Bill got his car back last night , put it through M O T |
| 21 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 22 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 23 | You take the card back next time and they put it in a machine and add more points to it . |
| 24 | Blair again converted , and just after the break out half Keith Megarry took over the kicking duties to put Dungannon 20 points clear with a penalty . |
| 25 | Before we get it fingerprinted , which I suspect will be a waste of time , and tested for blood , which wo n't be , please would you nip down and winkle out Norman Pinder from wherever he 's parked himself ? |
| 26 | Studies have indicated that the weight conscious , brainwashed by years of ‘ cut out those carbohydrates ’ advice , tend to avoid the bread and potatoes which supply a good deal of the fibre in most people 's diets . |
| 27 | When we played that tape back last night . |
| 28 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
| 29 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 30 | A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces . |