Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 3 | Based on the evidence of those first episodes of Butterflies back in 1978 , which of those two would most of us have put our money on to become a TV star ? |
| 4 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 5 | I knew Mum rarely read a newspaper so she would n't hear of the killing that way . |
| 6 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 7 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 8 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 9 | Three years ago ICI successfully prevented a wholesaler in East Anglia from importing and selling a substandard version of the company 's lucrative Beta-blocker , Propranolol . |
| 10 | It 's this version which is now recognised as the rarest Dylan record in the world and valued in Neal Umpred 's Goldmine Price Guide To Collectible Record Albums as being worth $10,000 , though a bid of over $12,000 eventually secured a deal . |
| 11 | Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days . |
| 12 | The situation was much the same in the bronze medal fight against Jimenez Reve — Mills gamely avoiding a score but never in contention for the match . |
| 13 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 14 | The pre-pubescent shrieks suddenly reach a crescendo as the chugging electronic beat of the opening bars of ‘ The Locomotion ’ blasts out of the vast sound system . |
| 15 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 16 | DEC apparently has a number of low-end Alpha PC projects going on : add the code name Jenson , prospectively a $5,000 box , to the $3,500 50 SPECmark Triumph we 've already heard about ( UX No 376 ) . |
| 17 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |
| 18 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 19 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 20 | But ‘ old attitudes die hard , ’ and nobody I have spoken to from Tanzania is under any illusion that the changes in content which have been undertaken in curriculum plans and examination policies necessarily reflect a change of heart among all teachers or parents . |
| 21 | The hot garlic butter sauce poured over the snails obviously has a lot to do with the success of the dish , but to those who say that that is all you taste I have always protested that the soft , salty flesh of the snail is very much part of the enjoyment . |
| 22 | Father-of-two Patch wears his hair long to hide a hearing aid and lip-reads when filming . |
| 23 | With two other men he worked his way rhythmically across the sheet , beating the second layer gently with rounded mallets until the starches produced from the pith welded all the strips together to form a sheet , the size of the stone , of white papyrus . |
| 24 | Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance . |
| 25 | Crossing sets of stitches tend to draw the work in and to prevent this in part and to make crossing the sets of stitches easier , it is usual to run at least one stitch at either side of the cable down to form a ladder . |
| 26 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 27 | FORMER THROBBING Gristle members Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti apparently had a hand in remixing ‘ SOS ’ from Erasure 's ‘ Abbaesque ’ project . |
| 28 | This applies even if the change only affects a user manual . |
| 29 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 30 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |