Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 afternoon , one afternoon ringing round all agencies , I mean there was no vacancies , but erm will you send us a photograph so if you 've got a photograph together and sent it off and then he 's on the books
2 Insert needle again in stitch above and bring it out through the next stitch at the left ( Fig. 4 ) .
3 Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her .
4 Faye pushed the wheeled dinner tray aside and flung herself over in the bed to face away from her brother .
5 US Sun Chemical Corporation exploited the weakness of the pound yesterday and snapped it up for just under £15m , or 167.5p a share .
6 I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window .
7 This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX .
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9 Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers .
10 Put the flour back in the tube , clean the tube again and put it back in the warm place .
11 Caroline stared at him , then shook her head wearily and lay it back on the seat .
12 He carried her over to the bench , kicked the dustbin-liner away and set her down gently .
13 It 's like a a rou round disc that screwed on and as that wore at the back you used to just slacken the screw slightly and turn it round until a little bit more of it wore and then you turn it round again until the whole thing was worn down .
14 If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block .
15 Caterina now faced the weeping Virgin determinedly and moved her lips as if praying ; she quailed when she realised that she would have to act the go-between again and seek him out alone once more .
16 Mentally counting to ten , Shannon gripped the zipper firmly and hauled it up .
17 Well it just winds up and it pushes a wedge forward and splays them out .
18 Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor .
19 7 Measure the area exactly and scale it down for transfer to squared paper — a large scale would be 1.2 cm ( ½ in ) per 30 cm ( 12 in ) , but if you want to mark in all the plants in all the beds , it would have to be of the order of 5 cm/30 cm ( 2 in/12 in ) .
20 Fred closed the paper deliberately and put it down by his feet .
21 An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’
22 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
23 ‘ Komm , ’ said the man roughly and pushed me out of the door .
24 It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place .
25 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down very slightly , 15 times .
26 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down slightly , 15 times.Relax the leg , then roll over and repeat on the other side .
27 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down slightly , 15 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
28 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down slightly , 20 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
29 Then swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down slightly , 15 times .
30 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down slightly , 20 times .
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