Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences .
2 Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman .
3 It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying .
4 Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English .
5 Scrape the soil away from the plant to expose some of its larger roots and cut off a few of these with a sharp knife .
6 Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine .
7 The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm .
8 In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp .
9 Dorcas organized younger nomes to digging drainage trenches and rigged up a few of the big light bulbs for heat .
10 Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them .
11 ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’
12 I rejoined the lane , and walked back a little way towards Navan .
13 He came over , shoved the piece of paper into my hand , and vanished down the same hole .
14 Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station .
15 Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away .
16 ‘ To be honest , Koke , ’ he says , leaning forward confidentially and letting out a few vapour jets from behind his ears , ‘ I think you overestimate your potential as a thorn in the corporate side .
17 Many of the males went to work in town and sent back a little money occasionally .
18 Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money .
19 She frequently took pity on me and brought along a few choice dishes from home for my delectation .
20 Corbett dug into his purse and brought out a few coins .
21 She too was saying that she had an urge to go down with her broom and sweep up the these building works .
22 Then the board righted itself and drifted out a few feet into the pool with the two rabbits hunched upon it , rigid and motionless .
23 And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year .
24 We spilt a few beans and touched the odd ( female ) nerve and laughed off a few fiascos .
25 Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted .
26 He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood .
27 Nick , the ever-ready surveyor , whipped out his loaded camera and reeled off a few shots of the thief .
28 Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts .
29 Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it .
30 For one thing , I like to play off the cuff now and again , and pull out a few surprises . ’
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