Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 2 | He sat in silence as she worked , and for that , at least , she was grateful , knowing it would be well-nigh impossible to carry on any kind of sane conversation right now . |
| 3 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 5 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 6 | The glowing consumer reports about cycling the peaks and television commercials for aftershave showing hunky men rattling down sheer slopes of scree on bikes made me suspicious . |
| 7 | The Factory Act of 1901 laid down enforceable standards of space , cleanliness and sanitation in workplaces , and of methods of payment . |
| 8 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 9 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 10 | The five Board members sit along one side of a long table . |
| 11 | If you can paint along all sorts of possibilities open up . |
| 12 | Scott stood motionless for long moments , sucking in deep lungfuls of air . |
| 13 | Although mantle plumes do not drive the rifting in this model , the surface uplift caused by underplating would assist the rifting process as diverging plates would tend to slide down either side of a hot-spot swell . |
| 14 | The way to greater profitability , then , lay in the direction of bringing in better sorts of people and , to ensure that , a careful eye had to be kept on what was actually shown in the cinemas . |
| 15 | MacDonald 's rescue plan for Norton involves bringing in new sources of finance , selling the German FUS subsidiary ( he says he 'll get £100,000 — Norton paid £8 million ) , and designing ( personally ) a new , lower-cost bike to replace the F1 . |
| 16 | In view of this , I ca n't see the coroner bringing in any verdict of unlawful killing . |
| 17 | This was done by bringing in large quantities of fill . |
| 18 | ‘ In the past any difficulty was dealt with by instantly bringing in large numbers of people to tackle it . |
| 19 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 20 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 21 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 22 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 23 | Round each calculation to the nearest 1p ( round down any amounts of ½p , i.e. |
| 24 | A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there . |
| 25 | Each tank was carried on four pairs of tracks , making a total of 16 points of support to each vehicle . |
| 26 | I contacted their next-of-kin and I undertook to pass on any scraps of information , or even rumour , that I could glean from every possible source . |
| 27 | They make the kind of music which makes sense if you 're driving down 200 miles of American highway , which does n't mean it 's particularly good , as anything loud and vaguely melodic would sound great speeding along Route 66 . |
| 28 | send in two copies of your idea with any forms or leaflets you are introducing or changing . |
| 29 | Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators . |
| 30 | In a very real sense there were two Glasgows and the second city was the one that clustered along either bank of the River Clyde and all the way to Clydebank . |