Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan reached up to hand Jamie his pint and I took mine , putting the money down at the same time . |
| 2 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 5 | He paid , and still looking thoughtful , escorted the young girls through the mahogany and brass revolving doors into the burgundy-coloured , upholstered , mirrored and gilded interior of Le Grand Condé , where in heaps of rosy cumulus , nymphs with come-hither looks and not a stitch on except a few blue satin ribbons frolicked between the mirrored panels on the walls and ceiling . |
| 6 | The advantage of superimposing from within the colour section is that you are able to superimpose more than one garment piece on to the same colour pattern at the same time , providing there is enough room on the screen . |
| 7 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 8 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 9 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 10 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 11 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 12 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Oct. 14 handed over to a US and South Korean delegation in Moscow data relating to the shooting down by the former Soviet Union of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Sakhalin in September 1983 [ see pp. 32513-17 ] . |
| 13 | Crawford Beveridge , SE 's chief executive , said the foundations for business had been laid by trade missions organised since the attempted coup in 1991 which led to the break up of the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Sometimes the German fighters followed the bombers back to their bases , and then when they saw the flare path light up for a few brief moments to guide the homecoming aircraft down , they would open up with their guns . |
| 15 | It referred to a note which he 'd included with the Firearm Certificate application form and the fee , saying that he ( Sampson ) had a chance at a Weatherby Magnum Deluxe rifle at a price that was madness , but only if he could wrap the deal up within a few days . |
| 16 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 17 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 18 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
| 19 | The European Year of Tourism officially ended at a conference in Budapest , at which the HCIMA presented and participated in the workshop on training and management along with a few others , including the President of the Committee for Vocational training in Germany and the Deputy Secretary of the World Tourism Organisation . |
| 20 | This is a standard way to implement word processing : the ‘ pool ’ breaks secretarial work down into a few routine activities like typing , making travel reservations and answering the phone . |
| 21 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 22 | Then , when the glider pilot recognises he is far too low , any quick movement to regain position takes the glider up through the same wind gradient , causing a sudden surge of speed and producing an unexpected and possibly uncontrollable gain of height . |
| 23 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 24 | He snatched his gaze back to the latter . |
| 25 | A trial off along the latter having a unpromising appearance was soon stopped . |
| 26 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 27 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 28 | Good morning Vincent , I 'm enclosing copies of faxes received this morning from New Zealand , and certainly the rate quoted is more realistic , then drop down a line and put eighteen by two point nine five pounds , oblique kilo , equals fifty three pounds , ten pence , next line documentation , twenty pounds , next line customs clearance etcetera , thirteen New Zealand dollars , I 'd say Irish pounds , three point three , O , O equals nine pounds approximately and total it up , eighty two pounds , ten pence which is approximately a third less as you see David suggests you lean heavily on Air Lingus and point out at the same time that Challenge Seeds have no intention of paying this exorbitant rate , also what is a consolidation rate ? |
| 29 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 30 | On the expenditure side , the fall from 1979 to 1983 was an even greater 0.7 per cent ; but the recovery to 1987 brought the percentage budget surplus back in the latter year to almost the same insignificant level obtaining in 1979 . |