Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets .
2 In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash .
3 This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park .
4 Pain in the lower right chest through to the back ( like Mercurius ) worse ( < ) lying on the painful side , ( Opposite to Bryonia )
5 The effect of this , of course , is to induce an ability to postpone oral instinctual gratification along with a concern about the availability of food — a character ideally suited to the demands of delayed-return systems of subsistence such as seasonal hunter-gathering or , still more , cultivation .
6 Arthur Penn made a remarkable tall story out of a similar theme in Little Big Man , a sympathetic account of American-Indian life filmed 20 years before Dances With Wolves .
7 Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews .
8 Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’
9 For starters , I wanted a working Spectrum back at the end …
10 Most East Anglican villages had a working windmill up to the beginning of this century , and many mills continued to grind corn until recent years .
11 This emphasized the shift in Labour support out of the Distressed Areas .
12 Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface .
13 The sergeant considered Jim Lancaster was going to slam the door and he prepared to thrust his right foot up against the jamb .
14 Angel pulled up in horror and a cloud of dust , growled something incomprehensible , but undeniably insulting , threw down the reins , kicked his right foot out of the stirrup and , swinging it over the horse 's withers , jumped to the ground and ran into the house .
15 Courses range from foundation courses for the complete beginner through to the most advanced qualifications from the Royal Yachting association ( RYA ) and Department of Transportation ( DTp ) .
16 He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress .
17 Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood .
18 A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord .
19 I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air .
20 ‘ But it is more important than anything else to bring parental responsibility back to the centre of the stage . ’
21 There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) .
22 Pluck a London-based journalist out of the office ; put him or her on a train with a party heavyweight ; and wait for a slice of prime grassroots ham to arrive .
23 and the salt-cracked slipway down from the jetty .
24 The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course .
25 well those others , three of those , somebody else 's children plus her own ran total riot out in the garden , but I mean there 's not enough people to come round and do spot checks even if they 're allowed , I do n't know whether they 're allowed to , but they 've
26 She watched Victorine glance out of the window , seize a shovel and bucket , dash outside .
27 Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome .
28 You talk about the inevitable ; as I see it , the inevitable is that you will have to move your mainly large-animal practice out into a more rural area , say , ten or twelve miles away .
29 He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church .
30 Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 .
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