Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes .
2 A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force .
3 Edwards , 29 , endured eight marathons in 11 days over Christmas , ran several without sleep and regarded a broken bone in his foot , sustained in a stumble down an Alpine pass , as an occupational hazard to be ignored .
4 That will bring the eventual budget down a fine tune particularly with regard to er recommendations of the housing committee with regard er to the erm which clearly there will be some people .
5 You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees .
6 The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles .
7 Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning .
8 It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III .
9 After the shop , Mrs Hollidaye took Dot down a shady footpath , moist with ferns and ivy , heavy hedge-tops meeting overhead .
10 In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building .
11 Killion saw the SE5a topple and fall over , but he was too busy fighting off the circling scouts to see if Dangerfield crashed .
12 For other instant transformations you could jazz up an all-white kitchen say , by adding red and white tiles and red handles , or by just painting a stripe all along between drawers and cupboard doors .
13 There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water .
14 The first goal was definitely the killer , because after that it felt like we were carrying a one-ton weight up a down escalator .
15 White Papers on the privatisation of British Coal and the setting up a national lottery are also expected .
16 The best kind of flat is one that is above ground floor level and has its own entrance , providing that you do not gain access to your entrance up an unlit staircase or a long , dark walkway .
17 The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other .
18 Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , next week will wheel out a new developers toolkit , the first commercially available programmers ' kit for building system management applications compatible with the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , it says .
19 The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI .
20 Overheats and it would melt , so because of that they put a little protector thing on to cut out a thermal cut out to stop the current flowing
21 Ponies are , of course , considerably cheaper to keep and the hardier types that live out all year round cut out a huge amount of work , too .
22 she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please .
23 Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances .
24 He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail .
25 The man told her to stay where she was , saying : ‘ I 'll be back for you , ’ but she managed to flag down a passing motorist .
26 it sort of brings the ceiling down a little bit as well
27 His later published account describes bad food , hard work over a fourteen-hour day , beatings and injury from unguarded machinery .
28 We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen .
29 We were in Mrs Mackintosh 's Tea Roomes , just off West Nile Street , surrounded by straightly pendulous light fitments , graph-paper pierced wooden screens , and ladder-back seats which turned my usual procedure of hanging my coat or jacket on the rear of the seat into an operation that resembled hoisting a flag up a tall mast .
30 At intervals , Fusil flagged away each quintet up an innocuous-looking farm track .
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