Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 2 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 3 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 4 | Proposal to Set up a Cook-chill System |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ he sighed , ‘ I gave that sort of thing up a while back . |
| 6 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Higher taxes and minority earnings in Germany drove earnings per share down a sharper 38 p.c. to 36p . |
| 8 | For he ensured a replay at Inver Park on Tuesday night by ruling out a Ron Manley effort two minutes from time . |
| 9 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 10 | The eight-man team train by hauling a barrel of concrete up a telegraph pole using a pulley system — and then digging in and holding the 810 kilo load aloft for up to half an hour . |
| 11 | Erm , in terms of communication up an organisation if that does n't sound to rude but erm okay , from the bottom of the organisation to the top of the organisation , there 's a hell of a lot less of it , okay ? |
| 12 | They wo n't take a slightest bit of notice … and will use the paper to role up a joint . |
| 13 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 14 | It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate . |
| 15 | Norman Lamont compounded the situation by ruling out an early cut in interest rates . |
| 16 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 17 | Ponies are , of course , considerably cheaper to keep and the hardier types that live out all year round cut out a huge amount of work , too . |
| 18 | The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] . |
| 19 | One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me |
| 20 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |