Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 3 | Investment bankers say that grey markets allow short-selling that drives down a new issue 's price . |
| 4 | The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river . |
| 5 | This starts along a walled lane which opens out into a field . |
| 6 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 7 | As well as looking after Thomas , Beverley holds down a busy job as an executive with Boots in Nottingham . |
| 8 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 9 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 10 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 11 | You ca n't talk about it with him because the word ‘ art ’ starts off a whole series of shocked , guilty ideas in him . |
| 12 | The owner starts up a new business and pays into the business bank account £1,000 . |
| 13 | On May 22nd ( the day following his terrible vow against Elfed ) he writes up a typical entry : ‘ Went to see As You Like It as performed by Form 4 . |
| 14 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 15 | He writes out a generous cheque and sends it off . |
| 16 | He holds out a sunburned arm . |
| 17 | Every once in a while he holds out a small portion of meat , which the Skeleton chews furiously and swallows , with the same lack of success as before . |
| 18 | Dwayne holds out a freckled ham . |
| 19 | He sketches out a domed mountain with a pair of high corries and ledges that seem to form eyes and eyebrows , and a vertical crest of rock running down between them , passing a snowfield on either side … |
| 20 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 21 | Note , too , that nothing is said within such analyses about forms of middle-class racism — the discussion pivots around a simple polarization between a ‘ ruling ’ and ‘ working ’ class . |
| 22 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 23 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |
| 24 | Inexpensive seed propagators consist of a transparent plastic lid that fits over a normal seed tray or a number of small plastic or expanded polystyrene ‘ cells ’ held in an outer drip tray . |
| 25 | As you play fig 8 try to improvise your own fills in a similar style . |
| 26 | The craft passes down a wide channel between sheer cliffs lined with castles , ramparts and defences , before passing through the second portal , a gate of shining silver set with sapphires the size of a man 's head . |
| 27 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 28 | A woman bent with a bundle of vegetables passes along a stony path . |
| 29 | In the pleasant countryside around the roofless ruin of Courthill House ( not destroyed by fire as may be supposed but dismantled by its owner to avoid paying rates ) , the road turns sharply east to enter a ravine where waterfalls are to be seen , and then climbs over a low ridge to descend to Lochcarron . |
| 30 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |