Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation .
2 Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs .
3 Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh .
4 They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ .
5 However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June .
6 Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come
7 The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers .
8 Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next .
9 Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) .
10 The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter .
11 And , as you descend steeply into the next valley , and round the Norman church , a line of eight gargoyles — one a benign lion , one a madman in mid-vomit , one a splendid , arrogant griffon .
12 Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half .
13 Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ?
14 So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ?
15 • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it .
16 Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult .
17 He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives .
18 Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home .
19 No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second .
20 Over a third of the Group 's 104,000 UK employees hold shares through the Staff Profit Sharing Scheme and have seen the value of the shares grow significantly over the last five years as a result of the company 's continued success .
21 That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah .
22 A REVOLUTIONARY new Siberian surgery technique could help people in Teesside suffering from bone problems walk properly for the first time .
23 I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey .
24 Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms .
25 And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable .
26 We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year .
27 Whether they break through to the next level will make interesting watching : the forthcoming exhibition and David Sylvester 's catalogue raisonné may prove influential .
28 David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition .
29 But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round .
30 Stainrod contributed the first goal and , after Pat McGinlay had headed Hibs level early in the second half , the player-manager then conjured up two inspired substitutions which brought Dundee victory .
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