Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 2 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 3 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 4 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 5 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 6 | POST Office workers put up a first class performance blasting round Britain 's fastest motor racing circuits in a Royal Mail delivery van . |
| 7 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 8 | Cos if you cut out the first oboe part , you 're in a little bit |
| 9 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 10 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 11 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 12 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 13 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 14 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 15 | Then bring up every 20th needle on the ribber to working position . |
| 16 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 17 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 18 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 19 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 20 | And though the visit could have given him an opportunity to kill his father , and then drive down the next day to discover the body , that was the one crime which every logical motive screamed against . |
| 21 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 22 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 23 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 24 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 25 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 26 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 27 | In the end we decided to go to bed , and then set out the next morning just in time to catch the ship to Hamburg . |
| 28 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 29 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 30 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |