Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | When the ball is below my feet , I bend over a little more . |
2 | I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence . |
3 | And I put in a little more of the surroundings . |
4 | I read up a little about the place . ’ |
5 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
6 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
7 | I move in a little artificial , smiling world away from all the big interests of life . ’ |
8 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
9 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
10 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
11 | The idea is that you bring along a fully licensed copy of a rival business application , buy a Microsoft Office Trade-In pack , which includes a mouse mat , voucher and pre-paid envelope , post the voucher with proof of ownership and Microsoft sends you Office 3.0 , which has a recommended price of £575 . |
12 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
13 | There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more . |
14 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
15 | You turn up a little here and a little there . |
16 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
17 | The end would come up and , and keep your load level on the ground you see , otherwise if you were a straight jib , they 'd come down and further you come down the further , the lower your load get . |
18 | ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . |
19 | Erm it 's quite important that we give out a very professional . |
20 | Of course we go back an awful long way do n't we ? |
21 | ( Actually , until we carry out a properly calibrated experiment to measure the forces involved in both versions nobody will know for certain which is more powerful . ) |
22 | They let off a little despondent these mums and toddlers thinking oh the best bit of the day , and they forget , it was n't . |
23 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
24 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |
25 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
26 | They turn out a little patchy , but it does not seem to matter to the fish . |
27 | With evaluation , as I conceive it here , they take on a more active monitoring role and , albeit under the ultimate direction of the teacher , become partners in the pedagogic enterprise . |
28 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |