Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's a huge weight to carry on his wasted muscles . |
| 2 | She sighed with relief and steered him towards a gate half hanging on its rusted hinges . |
| 3 | Similarly , our modern managers bring on their favoured assistants , introduce them to the secrets of the filofax and the business lunch , and teach them how to influence important people . |
| 4 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 5 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 6 | Every time , therefore , they met together their aggregate expenses amounted to at least £12 to £15 , or even more " . |
| 7 | Final Film 's managing director , Peter Stevens predicts that by bringing together their allied skills , technology , advice and consultancy they will offer a service , ‘ second to none ’ . |
| 8 | And it can fly supersonically using only its normal engines ; with no gas-guzzling afterburners to feed , it can go much farther at such speeds than any of today 's machines . |
| 9 | In the role of clients , these local leaders bring in their own supporters behind their patron , in return receiving political advancement for themselves and small benefits for the union ( Rothstein 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Well you see , you bring in your dark strokes |
| 11 | Well I think it is impossible for anyone to totally avoid bringing in their own values into work that they 're doing to some extent , but I think it is possible to deliberately set out to involve the values of other people in the way that you carry out the work . |
| 12 | we have people who know a lot about the subject , and others who are bringing in their own items for us to assess |
| 13 | His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks . |
| 14 | To neo-Keynesians it matters little what local authorities spend on revenue account . |
| 15 | Since the leu is not yet convertible , shopkeepers have no choice but to pass on their hard-currency costs to the customers . |
| 16 | For he was no landed gentleman like the Larks and the Covington-Pyms who 'd go to any lengths to pass on their noble names . |
| 17 | I am sure that we all want to pass on our good wishes to his wife and family after their terrible ordeal over the past few months . |
| 18 | There is , however , more than just a need ; for there is fundamental necessity for vision at all levels of human affairs ; all groups of people , even small teams as well as nations , must have a vision , or everything subsides into confusion and what is worse , lets power fall into the hands of practical , and unseeing men who press only their own interests , leading to strife and despair . |
| 19 | He used only his trained specialists from Fulham . |
| 20 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 21 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |
| 22 | ‘ He has only your best interests at heart . ’ |
| 23 | To achieve this , larger mammals , such as goats , sheep and deer , must mate in he shortening days of autumn because they have a gestation period of about six months . |
| 24 | He sucked in his ill-shaven cheeks and stroked his thin lips , and stared at them . |
| 25 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 26 | What you must do , however , is to write down your weekly goals at the beginning of each week . |
| 27 | She had fed the precious child herself and carried it with her into the fields , watching it as she wielded a hoe or sickle , tears of weakness and fatigue often coursing down her dusty cheeks . |
| 28 | Rhee reacted by toning down his recent criticisms of the Americans and he urged that a small force be left in south Korea until the south could defend itself effectively . |
| 29 | It now seems likely that a ‘ joint list ’ of green candidates for local government posts will only be submitted in the Paris region , and the Alsace , An agreement reached in October 1982 that would have linked the Amis De La Terre ( AT ) , the Confederation Ecologiste and the Mouvement D'Ecologie Politique ( Now VPE ) disintegrated last month when it became clear that the VPE wanted to have a dominant say over its two partners . |
| 30 | water sloshes over her old trainers |