Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 2 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 3 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 4 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 5 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 6 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 7 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 8 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 9 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 10 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 11 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 12 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 13 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 14 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 15 | It was in some measure propped up by a crimson tea-caddy , also of Japan ware . |
| 16 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 17 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 18 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 19 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 20 | Perhaps er , you see , Sundays some er ta er er , every runner goes out on a Sunday . |
| 21 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 22 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 23 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 24 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 25 | The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian . |
| 26 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 27 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 28 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 29 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 30 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |