Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ARRIVAL of a live album usually comes with a tacit admission that a band are either low on new material or about to suffer an imminent career flop and need one last cash-in . |
| 2 | In chronic catarrh with a thick discharge suppressed , possibly by a cold , and on comes a severe headache , in the forehead , face , ears . |
| 3 | In came the clothes shop owning , rugby playing manager Joe Moss , and in came a traumatic realisation that bedsit jabbering and glorious friendships were not enough . |
| 4 | Gone are the ties round the feet and in comes a full , loosely fitting single-piece garment , pleated at the neck but still with the top-knot ; the face is completely exposed , showing the features in a peaceful attitude of repose , the limbs no longer with a stiff formality but a far more relaxed naturalism . |
| 5 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 6 | Silence as though relief , when suddenly with a creaking and ghostly groaning the lid slid as if off and up sat a terrible apparition with outstretched hand screeching in a hollow voice , give me my gift with such violence , that some of the company fell into the water and had to be saved , and those on the shore scrambled in allways confusion was everywhere . |
| 7 | It pulled up exactly where they intended to and out got a drenched Barbara Coleman who scuffled through the nearest doorway . |
| 8 | I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet . |
| 9 | Press , and out comes an unfaltering milky flow . |
| 10 | Single motif procedures vary according to your machine , but I can do a very easy one on my Silver Reed machine by setting the machine to weaving , using an appropriate punchcard and moving the single motif cams in and out to make a big woven moon on a plain background . |
| 11 | Less than a second later he was jerked up and around to meet a devastating punch straight to the jaw . |
| 12 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
| 13 | The situations of the two antiheroes are similar : both men rejected by a hypocritical social order and about to meet an unnoticed death by water.Just as , in his murder scene , Berg heightens the tension by building his music round a single repeated note ( B ) , so here Britten touches on the same procedure , using a held F sharp for the momentous dialogue between Ellen and Balstrode ( which also partly explains the curiously inert harmonies of Ellen 's song " Embroidery in childhood " ) . |