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

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1 5 From a crouched stance , the student snakes out the lower arm in a tiger claw towards the groin area , to grab and rip .
2 The horse puts its head high in the air , muzzle uppermost , and curls back the upper lip and sniffs long and noisily through its squashed nostrils .
3 All of us were checking new bands out the whole time .
4 Why do n't you tidy your things up a little bit ?
5 Just to sort things out a little bit .
6 He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son .
7 Psychoanalysis also describes the unconscious as a bisexual or polymorphously sexual force , and maps out the social production and containment of conscious and unconscious sexualities around sexual difference .
8 It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit .
9 all the bloody corpses out the bloody graveyard .
10 Orange and red light is rapidly filtered out , and only 25 metres down a red wetsuit looks almost black , while a cut at this depth oozes green blood .
11 If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise .
12 And they include the most powerful steam locomotive ever built for the 1ft 11¾in gauge , the 1928 built German ‘ 77 ’ ( 2.6.2 plus 2-6-2 ) which is capable of hauling 600 tons on the level and 180 tons up a 1-in-33 gradient .
13 There is , too , some uncertainty as to how much support his present strategy receives from the Foreign Office ; apparently , not all of its advisers back the brash approach .
14 As she left the cabin she took one of the oilskin jackets out the hanging locker .
15 Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation .
16 Two vehicles back the black limo was in sight .
17 GEOFFREY BOOT hands out an end-of-flight report
18 ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser .
19 In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury .
20 Voters back the ruling party 's candidates because that is the way to win government grants ; businessmen pay for politicians because they depend upon government licences .
21 Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing .
22 THIS is a long descent — roughly 13 miles down a beautiful valley past the little church at Capel-y-ffyn and the ruins of Llanthony Priory to Llanfihangel Crucorney .
23 Got big stones out the big garden and he , what he 'd to do , put it on the ground and then he like this with his paw , see ?
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