Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 2 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 3 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 4 | The idea is that you bring along a fully licensed copy of a rival business application , buy a Microsoft Office Trade-In pack , which includes a mouse mat , voucher and pre-paid envelope , post the voucher with proof of ownership and Microsoft sends you Office 3.0 , which has a recommended price of £575 . |
| 5 | He lived in a little hired house five minutes from the church , on a stipend of £260 a year . |
| 6 | In Ayr , they lived in a little thatched cottage and Bel obtained employment as a washer-woman to support herself and her son , albeit in the dire poverty of her class in that time . |
| 7 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |
| 8 | We completed the first four Munros with relative ease , since there is little rising or dropping between peaks , and cruised along a gloriously flat section of the ridge having fantasies about lunch . |
| 9 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 10 | Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative . |
| 11 | Cook over a very low heat , stirring constantly . |
| 12 | They must attempt to innovate over a very broad front using people and structures which are still firmly in place from the ancien régime . |
| 13 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 14 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 15 | Yet revisionist work underlines the enormous difficulties that would have confronted even the most gifted of tsars in shoring up a rigidly conservative regime . |
| 16 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 17 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 19 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 20 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 21 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 22 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 23 | Richie had picked up an almost invisible speck and said , ‘ I 'm just this tiny grain of sand . ’ |
| 24 | Ponds of the southern and central tundra warm quickly once their ice has melted , and build up a moderately rich flora and fauna . |
| 25 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 26 | He dusted down his dark and dapper duds , drew out a really splendid hand-gun , which appeared to have been borrowed from the Robocop props cupboard , and released the safety catch . |
| 27 | Then he drew out a very small piece of thin parchment , rummaged for a pen amongst the debris on his workbench , and wrote a very short , small , message . |
| 28 | Hopper — crazy , mixed up , Dean-possessed Dennis — had already carried out a pretty full testing programme on several available substances and it was often a gamble to assess his behavioural pattern : lovable , sexual , violent or zonked out . |
| 29 | The analysts had so far carried out a largely theoretical exercise , developing models in a detached and objective way so that broad-based ideas about future strategies could be discussed with the College Principals and officers from the LEA headquarters . |
| 30 | The police must have carried out a very thorough search of the premises and she said , threw the book at my client . |