Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on the snowball gathered momentum until on 24th November , the entire Politburo resigned , to be followed by the collapse of its still communist-dominated replacement government on 7th December . |
| 2 | Having arranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon , he returned to Weatherbury in the evening , with a basket of flowering plants . |
| 3 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 4 | His widow , Mrs Mercy Rimer , has carried on the tradition these past few years , but this season will be her last . |
| 5 | In the years up to 1945 , forty-eight boys learnt woodwork , tailoring , engineering and many other trades , often carrying on the work traditional to their families . |
| 6 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 7 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 8 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |
| 9 | She was ‘ called-up ’ again by the SAAF in February 1971 , this time taking on the serial 6888 . |
| 10 | Each Authority was to fix the fares in its own area and receipts taken on the section concerned were to be divided equally between the L.C.C . |
| 11 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 12 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
| 13 | CAMBRIDGE 'S caretaker-manager Gary Johnson is being backed by his players to take on the job full-time . |
| 14 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |
| 15 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |
| 16 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 17 | As I switched on the television prior to using is as the computer screen to write this article , a lady was interviewing the country 's strongest man . |
| 18 | Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out . |
| 19 | Well I ca n't go down the square that 'll be too much , but I mean |
| 20 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 21 | The most practical way of examining the list is to tick off the items in each column that you expect definitely to apply and , where possible , to write down the expenditure involved in the adjacent box ( see Budget Planner , pages 120–25 ) . |
| 22 | Her voice came down the phone icy . |
| 23 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 24 | Next time you go shopping , make a list of five different types of goods and note down the way each was priced . |
| 25 | They are preparing a new bid but meanwhile homeless men are already being turned away as staff have been told to run down the unit ready for closure on March 31 . |
| 26 | All dealers who had written six on their paper would scream " Yeah " and would flick down the No. 6 switch on their phones , lighting up the panel . |
| 27 | The operating crew mistakenly shut down the no. 2 engine . |
| 28 | there was coincidental positive reinforcement that indicated shutting down the no. 2 engine was the correct course of action . |
| 29 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 30 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |