Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It strips off old wallpaper so that new paper can be hung . |
| 2 | Mike Shell and Tony Sawbridge found Kathleen Turner ( HVS ) on the Outer St James Stone , and in Short Story Zawn , In One Bound E2 5c , starts up Big Shiner then traverses right onto the face left of Tall Story . |
| 3 | A strip which has been missed with the herbicide stands out all season long , to the embarrassment of both spray operator and farmer . |
| 4 | On the ‘ real resource ’ view a public sector project uses up real resources now and hence the opportunity cost is incurred now in the form of reduced private sector consumption ; in the future , debt interest payments must be paid and the bonds redeemed if they are not perpetual ones . |
| 5 | After a few quick puffs the man turns and stubs out this cigarette too , three-quarters wasted . |
| 6 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 7 | The reigning world chess champion , Gary Kasparov , will demonstrate his prowess in London on Wednesday when he takes on 100 contestants simultaneously in a charity chess match . |
| 8 | And she 'd say oh , yes she gets up most nights now , in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | TV takes up vast chunks mainly in the 470MHz-850MHz range . |
| 10 | The section on measurement ( p.67 ) where the difficulties with decimal place value are very apparent , takes up this point further . |
| 11 | I think this both cumbersome and wrong ; the flesh of the fish picks up other flavours very easily , particularly those of spices — pepper , coriander , allspice or whatever else is used to flavour the stock . |
| 12 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 13 | A man is what he thinks about all day long . |
| 14 | Hunts down small birds both by day and night . |
| 15 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 16 | It pays out three times as much as if I check out overseas . ’ |
| 17 | His wickets ( 383 ) and catches off other bowlers thus aggregate to 492 . |
| 18 | He then brings in both feet so that the soles are placed in direct contact with each other . |
| 19 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 20 | ‘ No , he 's naturally suspicious and resourceful , besides which we 've no-one else who carries out such work now . ’ |
| 21 | I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. Friend that , in a recent study on maintenance techniques across the world , the World bank has confirmed that the United Kingdom carries out such work faster than any other country . |
| 22 | It carries out these aims primarily by holding regular seminar meetings , usually six a year , and an annual conference . |
| 23 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 24 | There 's something about those milestone birthdays that brings out millennial gloom rather than the gaiety in us all . |