Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 2 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 3 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 4 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 5 | your that we 've put that in as a recommendation . |
| 6 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 7 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 8 | Well I 'll drop that down to a C , that 'd be a hundred and fourteen . |
| 9 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 10 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 11 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 12 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 13 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 14 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 15 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 16 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 17 | One dentist I know , is so used to dealing with hypersensitive children that he says — and I mean to me — ‘ Now , pop this in like a lollipop ’ , but I do n't mind that either because , about twenty years after everyone else , I 've discovered the benefits of meditation . |
| 18 | Newman 's trained reporter 's eye took all this in in a glance . |
| 19 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 20 | Well Michael , right I 'm gon na turn this off for a bit |
| 21 | Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle , I uplifted myself upon the pillows , and , peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber , hearkened — I know not why , except that an instinctive spirit prompted me — to certain low and indefinite sounds which came , through the pauses of the storm , at long intervals , I knew not whence . |
| 22 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 23 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 24 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 . |
| 25 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 26 | I drew this up as a sketch showing , in essence , a section of the city . |
| 27 | What really sets this up as a fraud and complete load of tripe , is the ridiculous assumption on the part of the forger , that my entire squad of players would happily sign a document whose sole aim is to get me removed from the manager 's seat . |
| 28 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 29 | Leslie Orgel ( Salk ) recalled that only two weeks after Watson and Crick 's first paper appeared , the entire biochemistry department at Oxford travelled to Cambridge to view the structure and followed this up with a telegram : CONGRATULATIONS ! ( signed ) GENE . |
| 30 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |