Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly local Law Societies are either undertaking training or can be persuaded to do so , and bringing down an experienced personal injury practitioner or trainer from London may not seem too horrendous an idea if the local Law Society is funding and arranging it . |
| 2 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 3 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 4 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 5 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 6 | It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage . |
| 7 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 8 | A longer reading list is available from Age Concern England 's Information and Policy Department if you send in a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 9 | Individual photocopies A4 handouts/posters can be run off for you on coloured paper at the office if you send in a clear original ( photographs/cut outs can be gummed on to the page and words either cut out , written , stencilled or typed ) . |
| 10 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 11 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 12 | Depression had descended on her , hemmed in by all these people , driving along a straight dreary road . |
| 13 | Caro dreamed she was driving along a straight empty road . |
| 14 | It was like driving along an endless concrete canal . |
| 15 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 16 | Barnett sucked in a damp lung-full of air and pumped his arms in an effort to increase his speed . |
| 17 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 18 | It can be quite illuminating to write down a few vague goals , and then to discover just how deepseated your real feelings about nursing can be . |
| 19 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 20 | Loudon himself , though anxious to ‘ discard those fanciful comfortless dwellings which are often erected as ornamental cottages ’ , admits that he would ‘ scarcely have courage to pull down a fine old specimen of a picturesque cottage , unless in a case of extreme necessity ’ . |
| 21 | West European nations met in the US to haggle over a new joint programme of research at the LOFT ( loss of fluid-test ) reactor in Idaho . |
| 22 | Here , taking a milk measure from a marble slab , she bent over a big brown earthenware jar , took off the wooden lid , dipped in the measure and scooped up some clean water , which she handed to the child , saying , ‘ Drink that . ’ |
| 23 | Throw Enfield a question and he 'll bounce it around , knock off a few apt replies and then launch himself into one of the manic routines from the new show . |
| 24 | RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture . |
| 25 | Credit must be given to the home keeper Alan Godden who had to pull off a few good saves . |
| 26 | It beat off a last-minute rival bid of about £30,000 more from Channel 4 and the sports promotion group IMG to win the right to stage the event over eight weeks , starting in August . |
| 27 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 28 | You may find yourself opening up a whole new world of exciting foreign contacts which could , eventually , lead to some charming holidays . |
| 29 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 30 | Orders for the HP 9000 multi-user Unix systems grew more than 40% during 1992 and although revenue for the HP 3000 declined , unit shipments of these systems increased about 20% for the year — striking given the move away from proprietary systems , but then the company is opening up an enormous Open bolt hole for HP 3000 users . |