Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perpetuating its independent existence within your being , taking away your ability to control your life because you have handed this over to your lower nature — or to ‘ life ’ — within you . |
| 2 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 3 | Now she has followed this up with her second book , The Kitchen God 's Wife ( Flamingo , £5.99 , published April 23 ) , which is as powerful and moving as the first . |
| 4 | Callimachus must have followed this up with his epic poem Galatea , which ( as Rudolf Pfeiffer suggested ) presented the Nereid Galatea as the mother of Galatos , the ancestor of the Galatians ( fr. 378–9 Pfeiffer ) . |
| 5 | For Dick Pountaine , fresh out of his Imperial College science degree , and moving within Notting Hill 's underground milieu , a visit to the RSSF 's inauguration had been a gloomy experience . |
| 6 | Next moment , I found myself frog-marched out to his front door . |
| 7 | Residential homes will face losing some of their fees and we will have to compensate for this out of our transferred funds ’ . |
| 8 | Sort this out at your first planning meeting and much will depend on the particular circumstances of your organisation . |
| 9 | ‘ I ought to be able to sort this out on my own . ’ |
| 10 | Needless to say , there is no suggestion that the bacteria work all this out in their nasty little heads ! |
| 11 | He and I enjoy very happy ecumenical relations and personal friendship and we 've argued this out in our respective cathedrals before now . |
| 12 | Surely we need to work this out in our daily living . |
| 13 | ‘ Take this back into our private car , will you ? ’ she said . |
| 14 | We passed a merchant 's caravan which was stranded ; forty out of their fifty mules were dead . |
| 15 | Fortunately for Liverpool , they were already 2-0 up against their part-time Norwegian opponents . |
| 16 | JOHN UPSON 'S horses have been so badly hit by a throat infection that only six out of his 30-strong string are fit to run . |
| 17 | She could go back to London and try and shake the whereabouts of Gilbert Racy out of his obstructive locum , or she could see what other members of the Society there were in Norfolk and glean what she might from them . |
| 18 | Erm I think the bad news for the honourable member from Stafford is that er Messier Herman is in fact a member of the European peoples party and no doubt no the honourable member with great respect , said that he was a Christian democrat and he 's also a member of the European Peoples party and therefore I hope that the honourable member for Stafford will take that up with his Conservative colleagues , who are very closely connected to the European peoples party , because I hopefully have made clear earlier in my remarks . |
| 19 | Of course , Jim had instantly seen what I 'd missed all along with my stupid envy . |
| 20 | Huy put it all down to his regular job . |
| 21 | But … if , as they say , this is all in the mind , ie it is all down to your guilty conscience — excuse the expression — why not do something about it ? |
| 22 | Most tellingly , Labour 's vote was well down on its 1990 performance in the provinces . |
| 23 | By Monza , Jackie was still well down on his former team-mate Graham Hill , now driving in a Lotus , and Jackie retired with engine problems while Hill had a wheel fall off . |
| 24 | Things are less comfortable measured against corporate investment : the ratio is well down from its 1988 peak , and heading for a level not seen since the 1974 recession . |
| 25 | This was particularly helpful in between his two breakdowns because relatives get even less attention when things seem to be sailing along all right on the surface . |
| 26 | The truck was bare down to its wooden boards . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you still up to your naughty detective things we hear so much about ? ’ |
| 28 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 29 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 30 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |