Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ .
2 Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan .
3 Lesley 's had a letter to say from them down the job place they ai n't got nothing .
4 Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages .
5 Travis allowed them only a half-hour rest before moving off again .
6 Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway :
7 I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on .
8 I only a survey thing , and I 'm supposed to have done about twenty tapes by tonight and I 've done seven !
9 The max value em So the max value , if there 's a positive correlation , if there 's an ideal perfect correlation between X and Y , the maximum value of this standard score X times standard score Y , the maximum value that can take is N minus one , right ?
10 I am an electronics engineer by training and enjoy the purity of mathematics as a hobby , alongside woodturning and anything practical and creative .
11 and that 's what and I completely the checkout girl because I , I know her quite well , we always have to guess the same one , we have a bit of a laugh and I said do you want to be erm part of a national survey on s this English er on spoken English and she said oh , alright , so I said there you are your on
12 No I never A wife swop ?
13 Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses .
14 Mountain Rescue get little trouble from ramblers , since their rambles rarely take them off a bus route , and you can sometimes spot them at the sides of the road , gazing into a hedgerow as their leader tells them a little about the history of couch grass .
15 ALLIED commanders fully expect the Iraqis to turn chemical weapons on them once the ground fighting starts in earnest .
16 Some people will actually say , if I could add something to the plan that would cost you just a little bit more , which means that if you 're off work through illness , the company , Abbey will pay the premiums for you , would you be prepared to pay a bit more .
17 ‘ I thought you once a Goddess trim ,
18 ‘ Do you do a lot of newspaper reading , or are you more a weekend reader ? ’
19 ‘ Were you ever a Tiller girl with the new Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd ?
20 ‘ That bitch has led you up the garden path ! ’
21 Do you want Ann to go and whip you up an apple crumble ?
22 Was she really a college professor ? ’
23 John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’
24 I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look .
25 ‘ Are you really a film star ? ’
26 Are you now a house owner ?
27 I mean , she coped nicely because , providing we maintain a breeding stock of horses , cows and sheep , we can perhaps help you out a little bit more on that if you could erm , help us some more on the timber .
28 She though the place well-named , for the hall was bleak and comfortless and as cold as winter in High Tor .
29 As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’
30 were you never a Girl Guide ?
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