Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 2 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 3 | There 's a lot to be done if cases are to be taken to court , but the last thing Thames Water will want during the run up to privatisation is a long , drawn out damages claim where the point at issue is the safety of the water in the tap . |
| 4 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 5 | We got through a bag in about fivepence so it 's not bad . |
| 6 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 7 | He had pulled the band of material that passed for a skirt up around her waist and was tugging at the top of her tights . |
| 8 | She looked at him , for a moment all sarcasm wiped from his features , the eyelids calm as a corpse , arranged for a laying out , the unusual pallor of his skin like mica in the dark , but the seraphic vision lasted only a fraction of a moment , and the glint came back into his eyes and the twist to his mouth , and he said , slapping her on the side of her breast with a playful cut , ‘ Fantastic . |
| 9 | While she still had light she would continue to search for a way out ; she would — |
| 10 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 11 | My Lord we 've assumed as a matter of English law that I think the counterclaim can arise as a set off , but the other matters are a matter of community law |
| 12 | His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ modestly ’ parallel SP1 is intended as a step up from clusters of RS/6000s — connecting any more than five is cumbersome according to IBM — and a step towards massively parallel TeraFLOPS machines . |
| 14 | The first thing I never went to the doctor with when I , I tumbled off the wall down cut me head open and that 's the only , and then after I got used to playing football they must 've , have put a steel inset into your head the way I head that ball . |
| 15 | To achieve a level of composition above the ordinary it is important that the user retains the control , not the program so Auto anything should be regarded as a cop out and avoided where ever possible . |
| 16 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 17 | Indeed , he states quite unequivocally , ‘ in such dwellings every labourer ought to live , and any nobleman might live ’ In the following decade , Pugin also enquires why the middle-class dwelling should be regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , for ‘ the smaller detached houses which the present state of society has generated , should possess a peculiar character : they are only objectionable when made to appear diminutive representations of larger structures ’ . |
| 18 | The third round is generally regarded as a consolidation round , and this is borne out in the figures with an average of 68.3 before the final charge to victory . |
| 19 | Its use can be regarded as a move back to a more " managed " approach to the determination of interest rates . |
| 20 | And via a now explicit association with anality , especially sodomy , homosexuality becomes a paradigm of sterility and solipsism , while heterosexuality is regarded as the way back to a dynamic , creative encounter with the other : in the woman the man embraces ‘ all that is not himself ’ and from that embrace ‘ comes every new action ’ ( quoted in Delany , Nightmare , 79 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Méli , what do you know about the man over at Bourani ? ’ |
| 23 | The game can be played in a more limited form in the little bowl-type individual urinals which are more fashionable these days , but Jamie has never tried this himself , being so short that if he is to use one of those he has to stand about a metre back from it and lob his waste water in . |
| 24 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 25 | This should be linked to the dpc in the house wall by stripping off the plaster up to dpc level and applying the compound in a band just above the floor level . |
| 26 | Magilton was then booked for a foul on Much but with time running out , United continued to press forward . |
| 27 | A speed-table differs from a speed hump in that it is designed as a ramp up to a raised plateau with a descending ramp on the other side . |
| 28 | Er my brother John had been er gone to work for the Bank in and unfortunately was drowned in an accident when he was not quite twenty . |
| 29 | Charles wandered through the door on to the stage , and found even more evidence . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was the force , but the doll fell to its side , hit the wall , and then rolled off the shelf on to the floor . |