Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone was the flimsily dressed groupie with the ever-rolling joint , and in her place was a homemaker — a ‘ ballabosty ’ — in an elegant wig and demurely covering blouse and skirt , baking Chollah bread , making theme cakes , studying the Torah and , most amazing of all , performing the near-sacred duty of washing the dead . |
| 2 | They meet , they chat , they find they have something in common which is their grief and eventually love blossoms . |
| 3 | The forward and backwards pruning points define the limits of left and right context for a system . |
| 4 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 5 | The promoter is able to purchase such merchandise in bulk and thereby pass savings on to the customers who feel that they are getting good value for money . |
| 6 | Her main motive was simple : to retrieve the ring and thereby enable Rick to make peace with his family . |
| 7 | Boromir , son of the steward of Gondor , falls prey to the Ring and almost kills Frodo in his desire to have the Ring and wield it in order to do good . |
| 8 | Aunt Margaret came to the girls ' bedroom and unhandily undressed Victoria , although she could perfectly well undress herself . |
| 9 | Born in a small council house in Viewpark in 1944 , he rose through the ranks of local schools football and almost joined Manchester United as a teenager before Celtic stepped in . |
| 10 | Sir Daniel was already at the door , shrugging into his heavy black overcoat with its expensive sheen and elegantly cut lines , and he looked at them both with only the faintest narrowing of his eyes altering his expression of bland good will . |
| 11 | Any lack of required work effort by an individual will affect the immediate group bonus and so peer pressure can be significant . |
| 12 | To quantify more accurately the inhibition of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by Bcl-2 , we caused Rat-1/c-Myc-ER and Rat-1/c-Myc-ER/Bcl-2 cells to arrest in phase G0 by serum depletion and then activated c-Myc by addition of β -oestradiol . |
| 13 | When the British began to capture his slave cargoes he suffered heavy financial loss and regularly threatened Suakin until he was killed in 1900 . |
| 14 | Between treatments use Moisturizing Shampoo and Deep Reconstruct Conditioner and use Protein Protective Spray to protect your hair from the heat of dryers and other appliances . |
| 15 | It contributed to the newspaper both in terms of content and also in terms of much-needed revenue and so helped newspapers in their struggles to survive . |
| 16 | He did n't drink much himself as a rule and neither did Lane , but tonight was the night for it . |
| 17 | He is also a keen tennis player , running the men 's winter league at his club and even makes time to teach cycling awareness to youngsters at nearby Holmer Green . |
| 18 | What television , on the other hand , adds to the history of novelistic discourse , its definitive contribution , is a particular development of the interrupted and interruptable narrative , a narrative form built on the principle of interruption and therefore organizing expectation and attention in the short segments which will soften the disruption of being interrupted . |
| 19 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 20 | ‘ The problem was , as I saw it , that it had to be a children 's programme and still attract adults and teenagers . |
| 21 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 22 | If you say , ‘ I wo n't let you go to any parties ’ or ‘ You ca n't go out to play for a week ’ you will probably reconsider when you cool down , change your mind and thus lose credibility . |
| 23 | From Figure 11.2 it can be seen that touches , the difference between best bid and best offer price , almost doubled after the crash of 1987 . |
| 24 | They came back though with a clever free-kick from John Moncur just after the break and then had chances to win it … |
| 25 | They came back though with a clever free-kick from John Moncur just after the break and then had chances to win it … |
| 26 | The 1992 teachers strike in Italy threw local educational publishing into confusion and seriously damaged sales across the board . |
| 27 | He was short but built like a bull , with a thick neck and heavily muscled shoulders . |
| 28 | Time now to run , to fix her eyes on that tow-headed lad with the green scarf around his stringy , chicken 's neck and never lose sight of him , no matter who got in her way , to catch him and crucify him if necessary to find out where her bag had gone . |
| 29 | At recent review two years after the onset of jaundice she remains well with a normal bilirubin concentration and slightly raised liver enzyme activities . |
| 30 | While violence on the field of play may generate tension and even trigger violence , one must probe a little deeper to discover the underlying social roots of the problem . |