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 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Behind me ring out beautiful howls of rage and anger and fury . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | A perilous leap to the edge was followed by a difficult scramble over slimy rock faces . |
| 9 | We should develop or modify existing structures as well as work out new ones . |
| 10 | But if , if I stay here it means that we 've , we 've a , a ho a home in the , the base , and he 'll get a transfer back guaranteed transfer back within two or three years , so it means just travelling for for erm you know , that length of time . |
| 11 | Sometimes I managed to find stocks of surplus out-of-date doctor 's forms and he used these to type out rough drafts of his latest short story or chapters of his novel on his old Remington Portable — about the only thing he had n't sold — and occasionally he would bring one round for me to read . |
| 12 | I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them |
| 13 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |
| 14 | erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess |
| 15 | I was I was gon na ask about that so it 's not actually money up front total er or |
| 16 | Now , in perception , as we 've we 've mentioned that you 've got bottom up and top down driven processing but what you 've also got is something called global versus local processing . |
| 17 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 18 | The communication unit might consist of a number of specialists such as a personnel expert in communications , a journalist , a technical specialist and a back up advisory group drawn from all levels in the organization , and perhaps supplemented by occasional outside consultants . |
| 19 | take your ticket back sensible people would like . |
| 20 | If you really want your fish fed while you are away , perhaps for a longer time , you cold measure out individual portions of food into envelopes , and hide all the other food . |
| 21 | He 's only got a beat up old Metro . |
| 22 | Now retired the art teacher as was is painting flat out full time whilst the other runs the distaff side . |
| 23 | Despite the contrast in sound , Young is keen to flesh out thematic links between ‘ Ragged Glory ’ and ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 24 | The Sabena flight out left Edinburgh well over an hour late , so I only had fifteen minutes or so for my Naples transfer at Brussels . |
| 25 | Gorbachev declared that 1990 " could become a genuine turning point in the effort to limit and reduce arms " and that it would " open up a period of genuine [ US-Soviet ] co-operation [ aimed at building ] a world ruling out subversive action , pressure , interference and armed invasions " . |
| 26 | He suggests that when there are alternatives , these could be reduced in several ways : by listing permissible combinations of words in phrases ; by listing allowable input sentences ; by ruling out infrequent words ; and by using grammatical criteria . |
| 27 | Within hours of junior social security minister Ann Widdecombe ruling out special payments for the elderly — ‘ why is it special ? ’ — Major was telling her boss Peter Lilley and others to come up with a solution . |
| 28 | Although controversial , and greatly disliked by the judiciary , this is clearly intended to divert petty persistent offenders away from custody by ruling out custodial penalties for such offenders altogether rather than allowing them to ‘ progress up the tariff ’ . |
| 29 | Can this tightly-controlled society churn out inspired film producers ? |
| 30 | From 1923 onwards the party was to single out key categories of the rural population for education : these included ex-Red Army men , Komsomol members , and women deputies to the local Soviets . |