Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't pull the thread right through at this stage . |
| 2 | Since I started to work on this chapter somewhere back in early 1989 a lot has happened . |
| 3 | And gradually we brush a little more each day and try to gradually increase the horse 's tolerance , until we can brush the horse all over without any trouble . |
| 4 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 5 | Despite a slick campaign — a precursor of that just ended — Labour lost for the third time in a row , its vote scarcely up on that of 1983 . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 7 | I suppose I was a bit on the short side early on in secondary school . |
| 8 | Credit to the team , however , who rose above the boycott , preserving a remarkable sequence of success at fortress Kensington , 11 wins on the trot now , after a last defeat way back in 1934–35 . |
| 9 | The Queenslander won by five shots from the world No.1 Greg Norman , who finished on seven under par , with Britain 's Howard Clark one stroke further back in third . |
| 10 | Caro was a neck further back in fourth . |
| 11 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 12 | With the South American championship trophy on the sideboard and the side safely through to next summer 's World Cup finals , it would seem that the Lazaroni system has worked pretty well so far . |
| 13 | if if you remember we we kept the annual report bit , the financial bit just down to one side . |
| 14 | And it had been written , apparently , by some boy just out of high school , for heaven 's sakes . |
| 15 | The FT-SE 100 index caught the mood , recovering from an 8.8 point fall early on to close 15.4 higher at 2769.9 . |
| 16 | They look like someone 's ill-conceived idea of mixing diverse cultural influences : an archetypal shoe-gazer guitarist complete with fringe , hooped T-shirt and effects pedals , a grinning Lenny Kravitz lookalike bassist , complete with Lennon shades and dreads , and a drummer straight out of some Midge Ure video , complete with beard , pot belly and baseball cap . |
| 17 | In a scene straight out of This Is Spinal Tap , wigwams stand onstage draped in white gauze . |
| 18 | And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town . |
| 19 | Schwantz is the master of wrenching the bike upright on to that fatter part of the tyre , jumping on the gas and pulling the tightest , quickest line out of a corner . |
| 20 | A bit further back to Uni days . |
| 21 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 22 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
| 23 | Further point has helped er , keep the tax charge well down in ninety three , is that the , there is no tax on the non-operating items , they 're tax free effectively , whereas that was n't true a year ago . |
| 24 | A centre fixing anchors the top , so that shrinkage now takes place equally in from each side . |
| 25 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 26 | An oriental author , writing as long ago as 1708 , records that one of the cat 's unique features is that ‘ it perishes in a place quite out of human sight , as if it wills not to let man see its dying look , which is unusually ugly ’ . |
| 27 | These so-called ‘ pellet ’ dosages are described in Chronic Diseases p151 as ‘ the finest , of the size of poppy-seeds , of which about 200 ( more or less ) weigh a grain ’ and just one of these tiny granules , given dry on the tongue , remained Hahnemann 's standard solid dose right up to 1837 . |
| 28 | She is the most inventive and formally radical painter around , turning image and surface inside out in unprecedented ways . |
| 29 | Because higher-rate taxpayers benefit more from tax allowances than people on lower earnings , the reform would shift the burden of taxation back on to those with highest incomes . |
| 30 | As when it was eight to nine o'clock at night sometimes up to twelve o'clock , depends on how many was going out . |