Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early government line , from Michael Portillo , the Treasury chief secretary , to Widdecombe , was that there was categorically no special help and that price rises would ‘ by the normal route feed through into the retail price index ’ . |
| 2 | How , one wonders , can such historic complexity come about ? |
| 3 | All you seem to think it 's bloody Halloween come back again . |
| 4 | Train driver Graham Lumsden , of Duke Street , Hartlepool , said he was driving the train from Port Clarence to Thornaby and was approaching the North Shore signal box , about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Stockton station , when he saw a dark-haired male dash out from some bushes and place his head on the line . |
| 5 | Fig 62 Foot placement variables in the carve gybe : Aim : to make the back quarter of the inside rail dig in and grip . |
| 6 | Turning the machine over reveals the high and low speed switch on the top . |
| 7 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 8 | HIGH-FLYING Tranmere jet off to Italy for their midweek European tie perched on their loftiest ever league placing of second in division one . |
| 9 | According to the underplating model the addition of volcanic rock thickens the crust and the resulting isostatic adjustment leads to the formation of a broad hot-spot swell up to 2000km across and an increase in surface elevation of up to 2000 m . |
| 10 | On others she watched a thick brown snake dive down between her legs . |
| 11 | So questions of prior sexual experience take on a different meaning and emphasis over time . |
| 12 | Only with the plantation of Scottish settlers to Ulster did any profound cultural division grow up in Ireland which remained ideologically Catholic and Gaelic . |
| 13 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 14 | Jean 's black curly hair Hew out as they swung round and her cheeks , always so ripe that they looked as though they would bleed at the touch of a straw , reddened more richly than ever . |
| 15 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 16 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 17 | Sixthly , how would the possible creation of such a German unity fit in with the Helsinki process , and would it promote a constructive evolution of that process in the direction of ending the division of Europe and progressing toward integrated legal , economic , ecological , cultural , and information environments in Europe ? |
| 18 | There was an old knitting machine up there which beckoned me to keep myself occupied while I was waiting to hear about my appeal . |
| 19 | So what , how did the racing industry get on during the war . |
| 20 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 21 | Peter , who was in the front room , saw the brown car pull up outside . |
| 22 | Yet still , some vestiges of my teenage thinking linger on . |
| 23 | Following the decision to commit US ground-based forces , estimates as to the numbers which might ultimately be deployed rose quickly and , on Aug. 10 , it was widely leaked that the administration had adopted a " contingency plan " involving the use of 250,000 ground troops should full-scale fighting break out with Iraq . |
| 24 | Kevin Briley , whose favourite horse Shine On was to run in the big handicap , talked to his charge as he mucked him out . |
| 25 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 26 | Why do a , er , an old lady come in and fill up an ice cream tub , do you mean an old ice cream tub ? |
| 27 | A window in a nearby house opened , and Doyle watched an old lady lean out , look around , then pull back inside . |
| 28 | Bukharin pointed out that many features that characterise Primitive accumulation carry on into the history of capitalism itself , yet they do not thereby mean that capitalism is forever stuck in that particular stage of development . |
| 29 | The public sector pay round is predicted to be ‘ turbulent ’ with many unions representing health and local government workers submitting claims above the 1.5% pay curb . |
| 30 | But he was completely er this old boy come down to me so he said that old boy 's left . |