Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 2 | The constant impact against the field 's rim , of everything from showers of meteors down to stray molecules of gas , resulted in a cosmic fireworks display of spectacular proportions : a long tail of deteriorating matter stretched out along the path which the ship had taken . |
| 3 | Just 3 miles away , back in the village of Ewyas Harold , the snow ploughs were called in to shift inches of mud left by the receeding floods . |
| 4 | Water is next passed in to remove residues of salt and regeneration products , and finally normal running is restored . |
| 5 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , has called for fifty pence rise in petrol prices to be phased in to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 6 | Every week somebody from Wales or London flew over to discuss aspects of design or production schedules with her as well as the regular , more formal selection meetings , held at least every two months . |
| 7 | The workshop produces a wide range of one-off furniture and interiors ranging from specialised pieces such as collectors ' cabinets or jewellery boxes through to complete ranges of furniture for dining rooms and studies . |
| 8 | Giraffes feeding on acacia , startled by my presence , ran off leaving puffs of dust where each foot struck the ground . |
| 9 | Sent off to become parcels of ash . |
| 10 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 11 | She made a harbour with a jetty and when it was finished to her satisfaction , got up to find pieces of stick to float in it . |
| 12 | Dr Higgs , now a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead , said she was heartened by the number of support groups springing up to help victims of child abuse . |
| 13 | What was odd , thought Twoflower as he strolled down a wide flight of stairs and kicked up billowing clouds of silver dust motes , was that the tunnels here were much wider . |
| 14 | The ban complied with a request by the head of a judicial commission set up to investigate instances of corruption and abuse perpetrated by the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship and by successor governments . |
| 15 | Henley Advanced Learning Technology was set up to develop applications of technology in management education . |
| 16 | Without naming names , there are some bands I work with and if they are doing an interview , I will have to be there in case they do n't turn up and I end up making loads of phone calls . |
| 17 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
| 18 | Molinari and Foulkes found that subjects woken up following bursts of eye movement activity reported more vivid dreams than when woken up following intervals of REM sleep in which the eyes had been still . |
| 19 | Molinari and Foulkes found that subjects woken up following bursts of eye movement activity reported more vivid dreams than when woken up following intervals of REM sleep in which the eyes had been still . |
| 20 | They ate their meal on the tiny porch , watching the moon rise and send out dancing streaks of light upon the constant motion of the sea . |
| 21 | They also turn out to have deposits of magnetite , a magnetic oxide of iron , in their bodies . |
| 22 | Stirling , who arrived back bearing gifts of tobacco and rum , had made a lightning tour of headquarters , complaining of his treatment by the Eighth Army , and had managed to extract promises of greater cooperation in future . |
| 23 | The blackbird then flew up and took the cheese from his hand and kept on taking pieces of cheese . |
| 24 | Now they stood around eating fragments of sandwich and watching its eyes . |
| 25 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 26 | I shall start by considering the effects of the standard ideology on analyses of Middle English and go on to review aspects of variation in Middle English . |
| 27 | For example , let us consider how we would set about studying levels of violence in residential establishments for children . |
| 28 | Well all the way from , they used to come from and they used to have some sunbonnets on , I always remember they used to have the , I 'm not a dressmaker but you know a la they do n't like frills down the back that used to hang down the back and the I remember them coming round selling blocks of salt . |