Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |
| 2 | This tiny scrap suddenly took on a personality . |
| 3 | When she stood up to leave , Colin suddenly put out a hand to her . |
| 4 | Oh , my dear — ’ Alison suddenly reached out a long brown arm . |
| 5 | Grandson Richard slowly reached out a hand and said : ‘ Whoomp ? ’ |
| 6 | Slowly she manoeuvred him until they were both on their sides in each other 's arms ; she smiled as she watched his lips nervously close over a pert nipple . |
| 7 | Coleraine suddenly stepped up a gear in the last 20 minutes of normal time , a gear no-one , least of all Ards , believed they had . |
| 8 | All these -isms together set up a serious fact/belief divide whereby facts are regarded as objective , reliable and unbiased , and values , principles and beliefs as subjective , unreliable and probably biased . |
| 9 | In that final year , the income from the sale of lace , vegetables , fat and lard , pigs , horses , hay and firewood together brought in a total of only £74 . |
| 10 | They had just sat down when Zach suddenly let out a cry . |
| 11 | If a defendant merely carries on a hobby , e. g. of buying , refurbishing and re-selling cars , a court might find that a transaction made in pursuance of the hobby , e.g. when he sells one of the refurbished cars , is not ‘ in the course of a trade or business , ’ Blackmore v. Belamy ( 1983 D. C. ) . |
| 12 | Further , as Byrne ( 1975 ) has shown , the allocation of resources in secondary schools quickly took on a pattern which favoured boys rather than girls , with limited provision of science and technical subject facilities in mixed schools , and minimal provision of these in girls schools . |
| 13 | THE draw for the last sixteen of the FA Trophy yesterday threw up a battle of the Irish . |
| 14 | Coyle also picked up a Guinness Player of the Month award from the Northern Ireland Football Writers . |
| 15 | Signor Finchera also set up a table with a bottle of wine on it to ‘ welcome the lava ’ . |
| 16 | The London-based Social and Community Planning Research organisation was commissioned nine months ago to carry out a special study of Employment Training . |
| 17 | There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government . |
| 18 | Opposite the village the Gotthard line executes two further tunnel-loops in succession almost carrying out a figure-of-eight while all the time gaining a further height of 122m ( 400ft ) inside the rock . |
| 19 | STILL admirably sticking to their principles , the Hernandez Brothers recently turned down a very large sum from Warner Brothers for the rights to make a film of the Love And Rockets comic . |
| 20 | When Wattana effortlessly opened up a 2-0 advantage , Parrott looked in trouble again . |
| 21 | But the initial simple desire for change soon took on a more sinister hue when Rupert Murdoch completely switched his printing operation from Fleet Street to Wapping in the East End of London . |
| 22 | Molecules thus take up a specific shape , and this shape is particularly important in the complex organic molecules formed by living systems . |
| 23 | The Banbury Baptist Church who invited Millard Fuller here … believes this seed planting mission could lead to Habitat for Humanity eventually setting up a nationwide centre based in the town . |
| 24 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 25 | She was looking exhilarated herself , sitting up in bed with a welter of papers before her , her pen laboriously scratching over a sheet of parchment . |
| 26 | Then he cried ‘ Daughter ! ’ to a girl just disappearing round a corner . |
| 27 | The WRU yesterday turned down a request by the Merit Table clubs for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed national leagues . |
| 28 | Plenty of gulls still kicking up a shindy . |
| 29 | For the second day running , up to 30 commuters yesterday took over a carriage on an early-morning service from Colchester to Liverpool Street and put up posters declaring it a smoking zone . |
| 30 | Sales here rose by 18 per cent , and the Miss Selfridge subsidiary also put in a strong performance with a sales gain of 17.5 per cent on a store-for-store comparison . |