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

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1 But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold .
2 But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’
3 At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies .
4 For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask .
5 George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions .
6 She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck .
7 BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint .
8 Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream .
9 Swivel the foot slowly in a circular movement to the right , then to the left .
10 The subtle and interesting studies of personality in The Heart of Princess Osra and Sophy of Kravonia show what Anthony Hope could do when he decided to shape his fiction wholly round a feminine concept of honour .
11 The woman , tight-lipped , turned her back on them and began to slap the milk vigorously with a peeled wand spiked at one end where smaller branches had been lopped off .
12 ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’
13 There had , to be sure , been many cross-border investments , but in the main these were to replace imports and were based on exploiting competitive advantage only within a particular country .
14 She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids .
15 Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor .
16 ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy .
17 Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off .
18 Apparently , because my employment had officially been terminated by me , I had arguably made myself voluntarily unemployed and was therefore entitled to benefit money only after a certain period .
19 Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards .
20 The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet .
21 Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up .
22 Then again if you 're I think the only thing on that I would say is that , creativity in as a positive , erm , that that your there are loads of possibilities about how you could actually try and create situations , which would actually break down barrier , one of the barriers you had was , I 'll give you one if you give me one .
23 Like all the Wallowa Nez Perce , he wore his hair long with a distinctive swept up fringe .
24 He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in .
25 This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day .
26 Should I see my sister alone in a foreign country — blind ?
27 In 1988 Margaret Thatcher squeezed sight-test charges through Parliament only after a Tory rebellion that shrank her majority by 28 votes .
28 A routine change of engine consumables ' : water hoses , fan and pas belts and all filters and throttle cable together with a full service on the rest of the vehicle should see the RR fit for your trip .
29 Yet in relation to our local communities , these bureaucrats are part of the dominant ideology only in a relative sense .
30 Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home .
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