Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 3 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 4 | Again , a graphical function is generated and inserted on to an appropriately scaled graph . |
| 5 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 6 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 7 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 8 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 9 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 10 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 11 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 12 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 13 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 14 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 15 | Thus , " in shells of N.lapillus var. imbricata the external sculpturing consists of a series of lamellar corrugations laid down in a fairly regular sequence parallel to the growing edge of the shell which , where they overlap the spiral ridges , are raised to form thin vaulted scales " ( Largen , 1971 ) . |
| 16 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 17 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 18 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 19 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 20 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 21 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 22 | Satisfied with this flimsy explanation for the time being , she moved on to a more intimate subject : herself . |
| 23 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 24 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 25 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 26 | Smiling as she surveyed the posters on the walls of the twins ' bedroom — obviously Peter Rabbit was still popular here in New York ! — she moved on to the much larger main bedroom . |
| 27 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 28 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 29 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 30 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |