Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called Ollie on the black phone , the secure phone , to find out what was going on , to fill in my knowledge a little bit more . |
| 2 | It 's only really in the last two general elections that we have begun to bring fun and excitement into campaigns , to raise people 's enthusiasm to the point where they can let down their reserve a little bit . |
| 3 | When it handed down its ruling the High Court agreed that an arrangement offering the exclusive occupation of a Licence of land for a fee of rent was not a Licence but a tenancy instead . |
| 4 | As she put down her cases a large shiny 1935 Armstrong Siddeley car came around a bend in the station drive and braked to a halt a short distance from her . |
| 5 | Tipping down her throat a large measure of neat bourbon , she gasped , leaning weakly against the wall and shuddering as the fiery liquid scorched its way down into her stomach . |
| 6 | This deterioration , it was believed , brought in its wake a lesser ability in the areas of memory , numeracy , creativity and so on . |
| 7 | Marx looked confidently forward to a world in which the Industrial Revolution had triumphed completely , bringing in its train a thorough mechanization of life and the concentration of the population in cities . |
| 8 | It remained confined to short trips , often quite strenuous by modern standards , bringing in its train a flourishing minor industry of ‘ souvenirs ’ . |
| 9 | This is already bringing in its train a whole new generation of stereo-related audio products including microphones — together with a whole new set of audio problems for you to solve ! |
| 10 | But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme . |
| 11 | They brought in their wake a whole range of families who might have been socially ambitious but who were certainly fascinated by the prospect of sharing the movies with even more affluent and glamorous folk . |
| 12 | And when he he was told to bring in his car the next day and his company stock . |
| 13 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 14 | Those firms that take on their payroll the early leavers will again either gain a subsidy via a reduction of their training levy , or , if they are already claiming the maximum rebate , the payment of a grant from the training board . |
| 15 | Right , since I 've taken over my territory the first thing I 've seen , I 've got to educate my customers as in paperwork . |
| 16 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 17 | It flowed over her hips the same way , and over her buttocks . |
| 18 | Some pupils find it off-putting to have someone looking over their shoulder the whole time ; others would like to see fewer tutors per class . |
| 19 | Then , he became a little fractious , as take after take was made of him standing on a street corner with an exuberant human leaping over his head a few dozen times . |
| 20 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been thinking over your suggestion the other day . |
| 22 | The sooner the Prime Minister and her horde of Americans get off his back the better . ’ |
| 23 | You 're not going to mess up my life a second time , though , Julius . |
| 24 | I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade . |
| 25 | Pehr Kalm had been a student of Linnaeus , to whom he wrote in March 1747 saying that he had collected a great many seeds from the Essex garden of Richard Warner , a special friend of Miller , who promised an introduction and that he intended ‘ taking up my quarters a little way from Chelsea garden to be always with him ’ . |
| 26 | Who tightened up my nerves a few more turns . |
| 27 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 28 | Dumenil , which offered predominantly specialist single European market trusts , had dealings in its funds suspended in November 1989 because of pricing errors and administrative problems and was ordered to wind up its trusts the following year . |
| 29 | They were making up their minds the next day , so I could n't risk — ’ |
| 30 | The aim of the game is to see which of the teams can fill up their glass the first . |