Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put an end to the nuns ’ little treats and tricks , whilst at the same time allowing a whore to take up residence there . |
| 2 | Green and Shepherd ( 1975 ) used the Semantic Differential ( a technique to examine how meaning is assigned to concepts ) to show that deaf children share major dimensions of meaning with hearing children but lack a factor concerning abstract meaning and have an additional one of sensory judgements based on vision and touch . |
| 3 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 4 | Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People . |
| 5 | ‘ A crusade to bring back order , stability and discipline to the world . |
| 6 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 7 | The Marshall case also serves to show how a case decided in the European Court may become a force to bring about change in national law within member states . |
| 8 | It returned to the main line proper between Waterloo and Bournemouth last weekend with a seat sell out operation in support of ‘ Taw Valley ’ . |
| 9 | The European Community ( EC ) has agreed on a programme to clean up sewage which pollutes rivers and beaches , poisons fish and renders water unfit to drink . |
| 10 | It made no sound , and even seemed to absorb the sounds around it , like a sponge soaking up water . |
| 11 | They knew that palladium soaks up deuterium ( a form of hydrogen found in heavy water ) like a sponge soaks up water , an electrical current from a battery forcing the deuterium atoms out from a solution of heavy water and into the spaces between the palladium atoms . |
| 12 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 13 | Running a gasifier requires both patience and mechanical aptitude . |
| 14 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 15 | Do n't think that just because a shampoo does n't lather well it is n't doing its job . |
| 16 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 17 | If you absolutely love butter and hate polyunsaturated margarine , you would be foolish to make a rule to eat only margarine in future . |
| 18 | British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas . |
| 19 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 20 | Sunday trading introduced in a bid to fight off competition and a total of 14 stores now open on a Sunday . |
| 21 | He exuded masculinity in the way that a flame gave out heat . |
| 22 | He took part in a television series starring Billie Whitelaw called Time Out For Peggy , playing a verse writer for a greetings card manufacturer , and in a Margaret Rutherford TV play , The Noble Spaniard He also had two more demanding projects — pantomime and a second Carry On film . |
| 23 | But it too is a close-up showing only head and shoulders , with Todd gazing straight at the camera . |
| 24 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 25 | Knees buckling , legs trembling like jelly , an undignified scramble down the ice on his ass and two days in a bar throwing down Bourbon . |
| 26 | Harry Sternberg 's Riveter of 1935 evokes , in thick heavy forms , the world of reality known to all , while Joseph Vogel in a work entitled Forward Pass , dated 1939 , has over-indulged himself in Picasso . |
| 27 | The company has approached the Government with a plan to take over Network SouthEast services , including branch and suburban routes , in a wide arc between London and the south coast towns of Eastbourne , Brighton , Portsmouth and Weymouth . |
| 28 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |
| 29 | Everything you do when you live alone should be part of a plan to ward off depression . |
| 30 | However , McCallen will not know until after a stewards meeting tomorrow morning whether or not he will be on the front row of the grid . |