Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have to hunt us down or suffer a severe loss of credibility . |
| 2 | Never run down or criticize a past employer , even if you have to refer to disagreements . |
| 3 | skipping perhaps or swinging a frayed rope |
| 4 | ‘ Eventually they can turn professional if they 're good enough and earn a fair bob or two . |
| 5 | The evidence given by the HM Inspectorate ( Scotland ) to the 1968 Select Committee is however complete enough and shows a good spread of backgrounds . |
| 6 | The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange , low laugh . |
| 7 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 8 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 9 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 10 | Would the balance of power tilt further ; would the liberal constitution of limited participation and limited intervention be forced to expand outwards and assume a liberal-democratic form in which all adults had the vote ? |
| 11 | The rear leg acts like a springboard , tensing the back foot outwards and facilitating a fast forward movement . |
| 12 | Joseph leaned outwards and aimed a violent retaliatory blow at his brother 's midriff , but at that moment both rickshaws swerved apart and skidded to a halt . |
| 13 | Bleeding from the nose is quite common in pregnancy ; pinch the nose gently and hold a cold , wet handkerchief to it . |
| 14 | Then check it is clear below and attempt a straight stall , followed by a few stalls in very gentle turns . |
| 15 | Join The Women 's Press Bookclub as an annual member on the coupon below and receive a free copy of Not A Man To Match Her : A Feminist View of Britain 's First Woman Prime Minister by Wendy Webster ( The Women 's Press , £6.95 ) . |
| 16 | If Lahore symbolized military power , Victoria Terminus represented a scientific and commercial dominance which could suck in and re-process a whole range of other cultures . |
| 17 | President Nicéphore Soglo , who was flown to hospital in Paris on March 28 after defeating Mathieu Kérékou in the presidential elections [ see p. 38084 ] , flew home on April 3 to be sworn in and to appoint a provisional government , before returning to Paris for further treatment on April 13 . |
| 18 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 19 | It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group . |
| 20 | Barcelona went 2–0 up after 31 minutes , but the Russians refused to give in and produced a stunning three goals in 16 minutes to steal the tie . |
| 21 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 22 | Catastrophes would serve a useful function in killing off the old species just as the conditions were changing , leaving the world clear for the Creator to step in and design a whole new population adapted to the environment that would stabilize after the upheaval . |
| 23 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 24 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 25 | The only person to have both competed in and managed a British Olympic team , to have become that sport 's national president , and to have held virtually every administrative office from keeper of the records to team coach , and from time keeper to national selector . |
| 26 | If we 're going to go in and make a positive impact in certain parts of the region , erm then both my staff and myself and our colleagues who are working in the arts in the region have got to pull even harder together to make sure that we can make the partnership between us bureaucrats and the artist really be as effective as possible for the broadest range of the community . |
| 27 | they step in and take a positive lead when things are n't progressing well . |
| 28 | Then your Mam used to make p pastry and put these beastlings in and make a beastling custard . |
| 29 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 30 | And not forgetting the voluntary support , ‘ who come in and keep a live link with the wider world . ’ |