Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she switched on the light the little room exploded into a brightness so extreme that it hurt his eyeballs . |
| 2 | Lee had switched on the television the previous evening and had watched the Ayckbourn for a while . |
| 3 | When I switched on the radio a sober voice intoned the day 's bad news . |
| 4 | If you ignore the ‘ whisper ’ of the blocked sink , you might switch on the radio a few days later , and immediately hear of a severe traffic jam in the Dartford Tunnel . |
| 5 | Within seconds of hurtling down the runway the great plane was airborne . |
| 6 | Since the objectives themselves are unreal and unclear , and since there are so many people at every level , multiple messages come down the line the whole time . |
| 7 | As it slid down the avenue the old crow , which had risen and was circling warily , dropped down again to its crust . |
| 8 | As the parse progresses down the input the incorrect hypotheses should fail ; thereby reducing the search space to be explored . |
| 9 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 10 | They can settle down more easily in those circumstances but the questionnaire is saying , please will you fill in the answer the following questions and let us have it back . |
| 11 | She could see the ground for a distance round the beech-tree , and as she gazed down she noticed a man coming along a path a short distance away . |
| 12 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 13 | If a guest loses a key card or another guest takes over the room a new key card with new code punch holes is issued . |
| 14 | George turned professional in 1886 and was thus able to confront over a mile the leading pedestrian of the Victorian age — William Jeffrey Cummings ( 1858–1919 ) of Paisley . |
| 15 | ‘ I really think I 've thought through every permutation the human mind is capable of . |
| 16 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 17 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 18 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 19 | Cigarette companies picked up the idea a hundred years later and included romances in each packet of cigarettes . |
| 20 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 21 | what they use up the school a proper computers , the screens and printouts and mouses and |
| 22 | One of the letters , to Val Hulme of ABC , said : ‘ I have met many innocent men inside this building of darkness , many who gave up the fight a long time ago . |
| 23 | You know , I 'm bringing up the child the best I can , she has plenty of love I love her very much ! |
| 24 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 25 | Of course the distillery distillery had been made bigger it er put up the population a good bit . |
| 26 | But Brian Horton kept it in his office and said that he could n't have it until everybody stepped up the game a little bit , and they stopped conceding goals . |
| 27 | The ultimate aim is to set up a centre every 50 kilometres . |
| 28 | At the company 's headquarters in the appropriately named Paradise Road in Richmond , they are chalking up a sale every two seconds . |
| 29 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 30 | Housing turnover has collapsed to levels not seen in a generation — and in just two months , September and October , house prices fell by 4% , enough to virtually wipe out the deposit the first-time buyer could normally expect to pay . |