Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a large debt issue is undertaken , the Bank will underwrite a large proportion of the issue and slowly sell them to the market over a period of time to avoid excess supply of government debt . |
| 2 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 3 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 4 | Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing . |
| 5 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 6 | ‘ Just cruising down the street , see one you fancy and literally pick her off the sidewalk — wallop , in the back of the truck . ’ |
| 7 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 8 | In this series I hope to not only provide you with a list of the endangered animals , but also some fascinating information about each animal and the way it lives . |
| 9 | so touch me with the memories you 've made |
| 10 | You must be able to remove it quickly in case of fire , or some other emergency , so attach it to the window surround with double-sided tape , which can be easily ripped away or frequently replaced if you want to open up all the windows for a weekly blast of fresh air through the home . |
| 11 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 12 | Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished . |
| 13 | Green is a restful colour , so put it in a room where you want to relax |
| 14 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 15 | at one end put the thumb down put it on the wax and put the thumb over the top and pull pull it along . |
| 16 | And when you come back down put it in the oven . |
| 17 | you suddenly put me on the spot asking me for money . |
| 18 | Only let me past the walls and I ask no more . ’ |
| 19 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 20 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 21 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 22 | Whether the farm worker preferred to defer to the authority of his ‘ betters ’ , or fight against it , or merely accept it as a fact of life and accommodate to it as best he could , he recognized that there was a clear , qualitative difference between this relationship and that with his fellow workers . |
| 23 | ‘ So tell me about the twins , ’ I said , not because I was interested , but because I wanted the senator to talk while I dreamed up a strategy to turn down his request . |
| 24 | Yes , so get them into the habit of doing it . |
| 25 | Fleury was not sure that his own teeth were very sound either so they decided that the best thing to do was to suck the cakes and perhaps dip them in the tea to soften them . |
| 26 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 27 | Squinting into the sun gives you lines around the eyes , so keep them in the shade under a wide-brimmed hat or behind a pair of good-quality sunglasses . |
| 28 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 29 | Live foods which are not collected from water do not carry the risk of fish diseases , but only collect them from the garden if you use no weedkillers , insecticides and so on . |
| 30 | I am sure you would be amused if you could see me struggling to do such a basic ‘ computer thing ’ as merely use it as a word processor ! |