Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation ? |
| 2 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 3 | Optical chainstore Specialeyes has brought in a new agency to help it shrug off its ‘ cheap ’ image and to break into the youth and pensioners markets . |
| 4 | They brought in a white guy to replace him . |
| 5 | Apparently the unknown craft had switched on a powerful searchlight to identify us and then gone on its way , still without lights . |
| 6 | ‘ Not at all , ’ he murmured , and reached up a strong hand to flick it out , but not before Rachel had noticed how long his fingers were , and how black hairs grew over his wrists and down towards those fingers . |
| 7 | His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible . |
| 8 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 9 | Nick Bollettieri , whose Bradenton , Florida Coaching Academy continues to be the base for a whole host of tennis champions , including currently , Andre Agassi , and who is committed to helping the Lawn Tennis Association to set up a similar training base her in the UK , has , in conjunction with adidas , launched a fast and functional range of tennis apparel for this country . |
| 10 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 11 | This gave Conner the chance , when the breeze was light , to build up a sufficient cushion to protect him from Kanza 's better moderate air speed as the sea breeze grew . |
| 12 | Oh I I think I shall have to turn this one up a little Dad says it 's alright being long cos it makes me look taller well I do n't know about that what do you think ? |
| 13 | His arrest came just hours after he taunted police , ringing up a national newspaper to say he was the ‘ new Lord Lucan ’ and would never be caught . |
| 14 | The painful tears seeped slowly from Hector 's bandage , and his grandfather reached out a trembling hand to wipe them away . |
| 15 | They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it . |
| 16 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 17 | The Loremaster put out a blue-veined hand to restrain him . |
| 18 | I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space |