Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
| 2 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 3 | This remarkable and rapid growth was attributable to a relatively small group of full-time tutors and organising secretaries resident in these counties who demonstrated over several years the importance of their roles , personal qualities and ‘ … their intimate association with members of branches and groups , which , in its turn , comes only from … active sympathy with those ends which they seek to achieve through adult education ’ . |
| 4 | You were let out four times a day for slop-out , when they came round with the trolley and collected the plates . |
| 5 | APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams . |
| 6 | Lorna Marsh initially turned down the chance to go on the trip when she found out that Bingo The Clown would be joining them . |
| 7 | Barry Glyn Ellis , 21 , of Somerset Road , Irby , had consumed over one-and-a-half times the limit . |
| 8 | The European leader is a water company , Generale des Eaux , whose solid-waste business in France turns over some $600m a year . |
| 9 | Secondly , the speech that I shall be making tomorrow will give in great detail the marvellous progress made under the valleys initiative . |
| 10 | NGL found that with FMS stock work in progress is now being turned over 24 times a year as opposed to the previous 3.3 times . |
| 11 | The ravens , uninvited guests , must be content to scramble at the outer edges , snapping up any morsels the vultures accidentally drop . |
| 12 | Sho redds up reffled hopes an steers |
| 13 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
| 14 | He wanted to set up seventy-five gatherings a year ! |
| 15 | A book lying on the counter was opened , and while pushing back auburn hair the woman asked , ‘ Did you have a reservation ? ’ |
| 16 | The tangles were tugged out three times a day by a Norland nurse who attacked the mane in a moral spirit as though it were some disagreeable piece of showing-off . |
| 17 | It was followed by the educational ‘ comic ’ , Orbit ( published by the Commission for Technical Education and Vocational Training ) , which was sold through schools and came out three times a term . |
| 18 | In Chapters 4 and 5 we consider in more detail the writing techniques through which you can present to best effect the kinds of argument described here . |
| 19 | Now everyone knows Welsh lamb is best but if anything is likely to cause us to wobble over this judgement the next dish was ‘ filet d'agneau aux truffes ’ — Normandy salt marsh lamb , mouth-melting , succulent , on a bed of truffles with an intense , shiny , Madeira — sauce , the whole dish testimony to Lallement 's creativity . |
| 20 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |
| 21 | Gerry casually reels off recent visitors the Pasadenas , Beverly Craven and Martin Joseph . |
| 22 | Like the sole trader , the partners are personally responsible for paying off any debts the shop may incur . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 24 | It spits out four times the amount she asks for . |
| 25 | Once these buildings were the heart of Swindon , they employed 14,000 people , turning out one locomotive every week and a wagon every hour . |
| 26 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 27 | The company already churns out 62 titles a month under such imprints as Mills & Boon , Silhouette and Harmony . |
| 28 | After this , most of the east and south-east of Moorish Spain offered tribute to El Cid , acknowledging him as their overlord and paying out 95,000 dinars a year for his protection . |
| 29 | If Raine Spencer 's iron will and unswerving competence made her intolerant of others less efficient — in the words of one neighbour , the kind of woman who ‘ rubs up worthy souls the wrong way ’ — does she deserve the epitaph of the woman who alienated the children , sold the family silver , was short with servants and decorated Althorp in poor taste ? |
| 30 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |