Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 2 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 3 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 4 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken to Aunt Sarah and come away with this feeling of no comfort , no help , weighing her down as if the big brass door stop from the porch had got lodged inside her . |
| 5 | She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’ |
| 6 | One can gain a certain insight from manufacturers ' advertising and reports from other people , but finally it comes down to whether the machine is suitable for the individual 's needs and whether he can afford the price . |
| 7 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 8 | She flung herself across the room , beating helplessly on the door , whispering his name over and over as if the force of her desire would bring him back . |
| 9 | The war years had certainly elevated their position , but this was to be only temporary , and at the end of the 17th Century women were as badly off as if the war had never happened , worse in fact because their position declined after the war . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , I 'm really saving it up for when the hotpot comes out of the oven , but I just happened to cast my eye and yes , look … . ’ |
| 11 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 12 | Obviously if you pack your furniture in like that if you pack your furniture in in that way what you 'd end up with when the van stopped all the f all the furniture would move down to one end and be squashed . |
| 13 | A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away . |
| 14 | Because different amps achieve their maximum usable volume at different settings — ie. one at 5 and another at 8 — I 'm not sure how you 'd apply whatever criteria you came up with for the tests . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the model our analysts have come up with for the development of our leisure interests over the next few years . |
| 16 | And that was an alternative that he came up with for the erm er for the front cover . |
| 17 | ‘ Is that the best explanation you can come up with for the fact that I do n't lie down and beg you to take me ? ’ she shot back , her temper well and truly up now . |
| 18 | It has n't been picked up on Unless the computer says there 's a suff It may be |
| 19 | The Museums and Galleries Commission says a national lottery should be set up to provided the money that 's needed . |
| 20 | They are not just out as if an error had been made , but the centres are displaced by something like 3 kilometres . |
| 21 | The head twists out as if the skin is wearing an old fashioned collar that 's too tight for comfort . |
| 22 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 23 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 24 | To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’ |
| 25 | But we used to get sent out to after the stuff left out the the shop , we used to have to go maybe touch up anything |
| 26 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 27 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |
| 28 | You ca n't start making approaches to landowners and other people who live round about until the decision has been made by the working party whether to go out for consultation or not . |
| 29 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd hate to think we passed on by if the beast is suffering . ’ |