Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual would move up or down according to merit . |
| 2 | For private medical insurance premiums for someone aged 60 or over to qualify for tax relief , the contract may only cover specific types of charge . |
| 3 | There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need . |
| 4 | It still being that hour when most of the city was just rising or about to go to bed there were few people in the Drum to watch Twoflower descend the stairs . |
| 5 | Lone elderly households , however , are different : being under-represented among owner occupiers , and over represented among council tenants and — especially — among private tenants of unfurnished accommodation . |
| 6 | Characteristic flight patterns include : quick dash along a hedgerow , up and over to pounce on prey ; fast low flight through wood or across open ground ; soaring , often in a circular glide with intermittent spasms of three or four wing-flaps ; also a gannet-like downward plummet with closed wings . |
| 7 | Racal Electronics , up 10p at 237p , had to contend with a down and up grading by County NatWest WoodMac . |
| 8 | It is a particularly useful method of sailing in gusty conditions where the hips can move in and out to compensate for fluctuations in the wind without moving the sail . |
| 9 | The Americans and British , intent on not getting stuck in the town , wandered in and out talking of electricity and sanitation , then said they would send a few soldiers for a short time . |
| 10 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 11 | ‘ When I first met Jason , I was 20 and about to go to Edinburgh Art College to study painting or sculpture . |
| 12 | Hoomey 's face , screwed up with panic and about to burst into tears of shock and fear , quivered with a heroic effort at control . |
| 13 | If you 've got a toddler with you , a two year old and this toddler is is sort of er y'know you 're looking in the shop window and this toddler 's sort of thirty yards away and about to walk in front of a bus okay ? |
| 14 | And Nan , the baby of the family , eighteen years old and about to start at university today , Nan had not been one for inviting friends home either . |