Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Make a note of their position and come back a few weeks later to collect them when they are fully grown . |
| 32 | I decided to have a clear out and throw out the same number of old pairs . |
| 33 | But the bishops ' warning may harm Herri Batasuna and sober up the many Basques who have persuaded themselves that ETA terrorists are a kind of latter day Knights Templar , wielding car bombs and Uzzis for greater Basque liberty . |
| 34 | I raced back to the line-up and picked off a few more waves . |
| 35 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 36 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 37 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 38 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 39 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |