Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity . |
| 2 | My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church . |
| 3 | The old shed door hanging on one rusted hinge , would swing no more and had crashed to the floor . |
| 4 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 5 | ‘ Because it gives us time to stall them , ’ Roquelaure came back sharply , ‘ until we track down that Arab cartel or locate the missing arms shipment . ’ |
| 6 | Long-time leader Badrakhani crashed out at the fence , bringing down close fourth Rochester . |
| 7 | But the 11-year-old pointer was lucky that odds-on favourite Ocean Link fell at the first , bringing down another fancied runner Material Girl . |
| 8 | For example , the first constitution of independent India in 1947 laid down that foreign ownership should be limited to less than half in oil , and in certain other restricted sectors . |
| 9 | It is thus apparent , as has been indicated elsewhere , that not all of the earthworks are contemporary with one another ; indeed , the basic outline of the settlement seems to have been determined by land divisions laid down several thousand years previously . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 11 | Susie Terhune 's crew laid down some heavy fire . |
| 12 | And stock will graze down that tough grass and sweeten it again . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 14 | At Naxos it poured with rain and torrents swirled down those narrow streets . |
| 15 | Albert Hammond that is and er A Free Electric Band it 's Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter to one and er Action Line Action Line time now and er in a film Thelma and Louise that 's starter of the trend for stronger independent women if er you fancy a lift but want something a little less drastic then our Louise from the Action Line team is here today with something to tickle your fancy I 'm scared now I hope you 're not suggesting that er women take to their cars and mow down any unsuspecting male that gets in their way . |
| 16 | Let's pause for a while in order to breathe in some pure air . |
| 17 | He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water . |
| 18 | PGL bring in two new players |
| 19 | Plea please can I ask you if you bring in any other ideas of business you 'll be considered to be |
| 20 | Between 1768 and 1779 , his own voyages of discovery filled in vast empty areas on the maps of his time . |
| 21 | A more practical initiative which would currently involve them is a self build housing scheme , it 's at a very early stage , but basically erm , were working with the housing department , economic development unit and er work , the work 's department , there 's a , there 's a corporate project team , and were , were looking erm , we 've got to identify , positively identify a site for it , but we 're looking at bringing in European Social Fund , Funding and erm housing association money to get a self built housing scheme for young people , you know , where they would be trained in manual skills to build there own house and they live there , erm and er , so that 's , that 's quite an exciting scheme . |
| 22 | More than twenty children were killed bringing in that first wartime crop of 1914 . |
| 23 | While the diners laughed and chatted together , perhaps half-listening to music , the slaves were kept busy bringing in each new course and clearing away the empty dishes . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Remington-Hart is bringing in two private nurses who have worked with him previously . |
| 25 | We will improve the way in which council housing is managed by bringing in new private sector providers operating on contract to the local authority . |
| 26 | In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity . |
| 27 | But by bringing in such literary examples , we are confronted with the question of whether the notions of " truth value " and " reference " can be applied to the mock realities of fiction . |
| 28 | Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years . |
| 29 | The effect on salinity caused by bringing in less-saline Mediterranean water will be to return the sea to something approaching its former condition when the River Jordan inflow was strong . |
| 30 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |