Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
| 2 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 3 | If paragliders can at least get away with their sport when safely airborne , since they then take on some element of grace and beauty , the mountain biker will always look a clod . |
| 4 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 5 | In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 8 | What , you may ask , has brought on this fit of choler on my part ? |
| 9 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 10 | The intention was to close down that area of attack . |
| 11 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 13 | Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made . |
| 14 | I was going to fill in another layer of earth , and then put in some rubbish . " |
| 15 | After all , " he added , smiling at Grace as she brought in another pot of tea , " my poor bewildered senses have already suffered one assault at the hands of your delicious mother . " |
| 16 | It is therefore necessary to bring in another model of style , that of foregrounding , to supplement that of stylistic variants . |
| 17 | Oral tradition played a major part in transmitting and passing down this culture of superstition . |
| 18 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 19 | Eventually tracking down some bottles of alcohol in the kitchen , she popped her head back around the door to ask Ross what he wanted . |
| 20 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 21 | I do n't want to have a working party , but I 'm wondering if we should lay down some sort of set of timetable and dates . |
| 22 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |
| 23 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 24 | The descriptions can be as varied as you like along this sort of theme , providing the adventurers with something to think over as they approach the Castle . |
| 25 | Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators . |
| 26 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 27 | Yet in spite of these difficulties the Company turned down any chance of surrender ‘ and would be treated as brigands ’ according to the message Donald Ross brought to Hatu-Lia on 13 March — three weeks after the Japanese landed . |
| 28 | Today , while Maudie was filling a grocery order to the delivered by hand , he had decided to amuse him self by trying to clamber up the shelves , and succeeded in pulling down several tins of treacle . |
| 29 | Because we 'd worked over that seam of conversation at infrequent intervals , in exactly the same order . |
| 30 | For this purpose , they advised the creation of permanent or standing select ( specialist ) committees with powers of interrogation and investigation to watch over each area of government action . |