Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The edge of the road near the bowling green where a tree blew down is still not reinstated or fenced . |
| 2 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 3 | Aim for the knoll of Little Ingleborough where a path coming up from Gaping Gill will be joined for the last easy half-mile to the summit . |
| 4 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 5 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 6 | But the escarpments are fixed and here , where a stream tumbles down onto the plain , is the site of Claudia 's camp . |
| 7 | She describes in precise detail the deserted country road in Mayobridge , County Down , where a mine blew up the Land-Rover he was travelling in . |
| 8 | Use a logical progression or a system radiating out from a central base . |
| 9 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 10 | In everyday practice — and CSM does work every day and not just on those when a practolol or a benoxaprofen blows up in its face — this leads to an informality of conduct of business which was carefully cultivated by the late Sir Derrick Dunlop from the earliest days of the Committee on Safety of Drugs , CSM 's forebear . |
| 11 | The reason is often simple : their home was the one with the milk bottles left on the step , or a newspaper sticking out of the letter box ! |
| 12 | Each time a shop assistant or a clerk or a tradesman wrote down Dr E. Headleand , Harley Street , the same thrill of self-affirmation , of self-definition would be re-enacted . |
| 13 | you do n't need imagination or a calculator to work out that Cresta are still the top Paris specialists . |
| 14 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 15 | We go with him , and our sisters too , and sometimes a hare jumps out in front of us or a pheasant flies up from the ditch . |
| 16 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |
| 17 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 18 | A little girl carrying either a doll or a child walked back and forth behind the windows . |
| 19 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |
| 20 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 21 | I think y yo you could blip from month to month er , er as a priority slipped in or changed , or a person slipped out or , or somebody forgot to zero something or y |
| 22 | The Rev David Neil , the Union 's Mission Field worker stressed the need for churches to have a mission strategy or commitment to training or a willingness to reach out and become involved in their communities . |
| 23 | At Christmas I was given one of Brynley 's old books with his name crossed out and a torch or a diary thrown in . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 25 | Three farmsteads were nothing but black , glittering wood and a column of smoke where a vat of fish-oil had overturned into a brazier , or a roasting-fire got out of hand , or a guttering candle caught hangings . |
| 26 | fiscal valuations — the tax authorities , or a client carrying out tax planning , may require the determination of values for capital gains tax , stamp duty or other fiscal purposes ; or |
| 27 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |
| 28 | Consider using an object such as a bag or briefcase or a chair to fend off the attacker ( bear in mind the potential difference between fending off and striking with a weapon ) . |
| 29 | Is n't it time that members standing for C E C elections were given the same equality with Regional Secretaries , who as we all know , all year round , in all regions , when a leaflet or a booklet goes out to members , in most of them there is a photograph of the Regional Secretary . |
| 30 | One could go on and pick many other scriptures , you know in the erm the New Testament not only were there those three questions that we mentioned earlier on about salvation , but there are three unanswered questions in the New Testament in Mark chapter eight , Jesus asked that question of which there is no answer , for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his sole or what shall a man or a woman give in exchange for their soul , Jesus did n't try and answer , there is no answer to that question , then again in , in Hebrews chapter three , er chapter two and verse three there is an unanswered question , how shall we escape if we neglect so greater salvation , and finally one other the apostle Peter , he asked the question in , in chapter fo , first apostle in chapter four and verse seven seventeen for it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God and if judgment begins with us first , what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God |