Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear leg acts like a springboard , tensing the back foot outwards and facilitating a fast forward movement . |
| 2 | So many and such large anomalies pile up that the paradigm suddenly collapses , as , for instance , when Einstein put the exceptions to the Newtonian paradigm together and proposed the theory of relativity . |
| 3 | Visitors young and old let their hair down and enjoyed the entertainment , which ranged from clowns and bouncy castles to computer games and a disco . |
| 4 | Well , er at Christmas time and the new year time , we can let our hair down and sing the old traditional ballads , maybe |
| 5 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 6 | I remember planting my foot down and hearing a snap . |
| 7 | She did n't answer , just put her foot down and sent the Cortina faster and faster through the night . |
| 8 | to make sure they 're alright then they switched the telly on and fetched a couple of , the adult programme . |
| 9 | When the police tried to get them to accept a re-route through an entirely Catholic area , they abandoned the march altogether and confined the event to a rally which was held in the open air in a car park in Foyle Street . |
| 10 | A second push on the central button removes the setting altogether and allows the driver to return to foot control of the tractor . |
| 11 | It rejoices in the unrivalled might of Israel 's God , the creator of the world , and in his habit of turning human affairs upside down and bringing the powerless to positions of strength . |
| 12 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 13 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 14 | The Yugo finally skidded to a halt upside down and straddling the middle lane . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin 's best hope was to persuade four of the largest republics — Russia , Belorussia , the Ukraine and Kazakhstan — to club together and outline the powers of the central and republican governments . |
| 16 | One further adopted measure thus was to offset the carriageway or create a chicane by using planting on one side only and switching the right-angle parking from one side to the other ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 17 | He had a reputation for being tough in the water and was alleged to be a champion of ‘ localism ’ — the attitude of resident surfers who guard their break jealously and resent the intrusion of outsiders . |
| 18 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 19 | Once under 178 knots you get the gear down and lower the flaps ten per cent ; then under 122 knots lower full flaps and maintain ninety knots to the threshold using around 25 per cent torque . |
| 20 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 21 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 22 | Regular exercise and a sensible diet will help keep your weight down and reduce the risk . |
| 23 | Insert needle from right to left under both loops of stitch below and draw the thread through . |
| 24 | " Distractedly , he began to change hammer , pouch , pipe and matches from hand to hand , dropping them and picking them up , before finally deciding to put the hammer down and stuff the rest into his pockets . |
| 25 | I am under pressure from a wide range of general practitioners to bring the list size criterion down and to extend the range of care that can be purchased by GP fund holders . |
| 26 | This would drag the underlying asthenosphere along and promote a compensatory upward movement within the mantle under mid-oceanic ridges . |
| 27 | The sub-committee might then find it is helpful to note any immediately available information about good practice elsewhere and consider the questions which they propose to ask during their first consultation with the head teacher . |
| 28 | Pour the garlic vinaigrette over and toss the salad , then serve immediately , scattered with cress . |
| 29 | Then , before he has quite finished , and he 's associating the trailer with a good place to be , take the horse away and repeat the Meals on Wheels business again the next day . |
| 30 | To increase this tension further and aggravate the goods famine even more is impossible . |