Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 2 | If they are as divorced from experience as they seem , the only explanations for their regular occurrence in a variety of people must be either , following Jung , that these are archetypal dreams with some allegorical significance , or that they represent an attempt to make sense out of experiences really occurring during dreaming sleep — an attempt to make a coherent story out of some pattern of the highly active discharges from the hindbrain which are a feature of REM sleep . |
| 3 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 4 | There was a huge anger welling in Maxim that choked off anything he might have said , a yearning to reach that mugger and snap his arms , which he could do so easily , then kick the helpless manhood out of him … |
| 5 | With Labour welfarism out of fashion , and neo-liberalism in vogue , the scene was set , not only for the downgrading of local authority power ( including the outright abolition of the Greater London Council and the metropolitan authorities which , though actually limited in their spending power , were nevertheless the coordinators and vocal champions of many inner urban schemes ) , but also for the injection of national party dogma into the management of local affairs . |
| 6 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 7 | For non-working spouses , sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance . |
| 8 | This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park . |
| 9 | Keep bleached hair out of swimming pools — the chemicals could turn it green . |
| 10 | The pragmatist who makes this argument tries to build political responsibility out of ordinary , nonpolitical principles of morality . |
| 11 | Pain in the lower right chest through to the back ( like Mercurius ) worse ( < ) lying on the painful side , ( Opposite to Bryonia ) |
| 12 | The effect of this , of course , is to induce an ability to postpone oral instinctual gratification along with a concern about the availability of food — a character ideally suited to the demands of delayed-return systems of subsistence such as seasonal hunter-gathering or , still more , cultivation . |
| 13 | Arthur Penn made a remarkable tall story out of a similar theme in Little Big Man , a sympathetic account of American-Indian life filmed 20 years before Dances With Wolves . |
| 14 | Bella pulled a cellular blanket up over her head , closed her eyes and lay , as still as she could , under her heap of covers . |
| 15 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 16 | She flashed another covert look back at Conchis , then leant forward and lightly pushed my arm with the tip of the brush , as if to say , Go away . |
| 17 | For example they support the market square project and at the end of the day even with the total budget down to S S A the vast bulk of the money being spent by conservative budget 's been spent on people salaries but it 's still being spent on services and the labour party this year has lost the three elements keeping the tax down and that 's quite a good thing to see . |
| 18 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 19 | For starters , I wanted a working Spectrum back at the end … |
| 20 | The thought lit a spark of rebellion , and slowly she sat up , pushing tousled hair back from her tear-streaked face . |
| 21 | He shrugged easily , leaning a shoulder against the wall as he pushed the heavy tousled hair back from his forehead . |
| 22 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 23 | Most East Anglican villages had a working windmill up to the beginning of this century , and many mills continued to grind corn until recent years . |
| 24 | There will be a broad spectrum in between . |
| 25 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 26 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 27 | There are high class schooling facilities for children of all age groups together with a wide range of recreational amenities available including Moseley Private park on to which the property leads directly , Moseley Rugby Football Club , Edgbaston County Cricket Ground , Moseley Golf Club , Cannon Hill Park and the Midland Art Centre . |
| 28 | This emphasized the shift in Labour support out of the Distressed Areas . |
| 29 | Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface . |
| 30 | Somehow Shadwell contrives to create a more or less coherent narrative out of all this , and Lloyd 's manic production , which combines Restoration costumes with kitsch trimmings from the 1950s , moves at a pace which leaves the audience breathless . |