Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 2 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 3 | The hundred shares index closed down half a point at twenty-eight , twelve point six . |
| 4 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 5 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 6 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 7 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 8 | I think if we ever need to fill in half an hour we know what to do ! |
| 9 | I do not rule that out completely , but I believe that we should consider the matter carefully before going down such a route . |
| 10 | Come on people : How many of you would turn down such a contract if it were offered to you . |
| 11 | A man would have to be an idiot to turn down such a chance . |
| 12 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 13 | Forthcoming innovations from PC World include a networking department where customers can see products demonstrated and receive advice , and a department for the first-time user who wants direct advice without having to wander along all the shelves . |
| 14 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |
| 15 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 16 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 17 | It is therefore necessary to clean down all the timbers before spraying . |
| 18 | If you visit the show next week and note down all the East Anglian exhibitors , it may surprise you what the nursery people from this area do to put on this wonderful show . |
| 19 | I would say that on reception is the one that probably needs more support let her down all the rest of it . |
| 20 | In her notebook she wrote down all the scanner alarms , every shower and every other danger in the factory . |
| 21 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 22 | Write down all the pairs of parallel lines that you can find in the following way : AB FG . |
| 23 | As Liberty and Tyranny have no common meeting place , so protestantism and popery can not be reconciled … popery is tyrannical in every sphere of life … protestantism , at a stroke , cuts down all the shackles of superstition and priestcraft . |
| 24 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 25 | Head the left-hand column ‘ reasons for ’ and write down all the reasons you can think of to follow a particular choice . |
| 26 | Similarly head the right-hand column ‘ reasons against ’ , and write down all the reasons as to why you should not make that choice . |
| 27 | It is proposed in this plan to lay down all the streets , squares , spaces , courts , lanes , yards , passages , fields , gardens , etc. , etc. , in such a manner as to express the exact dimensions of every regularly bounded plot of land in the township of Manchester and Salford , that will fall within that square which shall be judged the most proper to encompass it . |
| 28 | Throughout the greater part of these districts the supply of water is intimately mixed , the pipes of both companies going down all the streets and into almost all the courts and alleys . |
| 29 | A first step in dealing with unwanted stress could be to write down all the factors which you think may be causing undue stress in your life at present . |
| 30 | If we just take those , so basically what we 've done is we 've cut down all the luxuries in your life |