Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | Based on the evidence of those first episodes of Butterflies back in 1978 , which of those two would most of us have put our money on to become a TV star ? |
| 3 | I knew Mum rarely read a newspaper so she would n't hear of the killing that way . |
| 4 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 5 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 6 | Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days . |
| 7 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 8 | Father-of-two Patch wears his hair long to hide a hearing aid and lip-reads when filming . |
| 9 | Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance . |
| 10 | Crossing sets of stitches tend to draw the work in and to prevent this in part and to make crossing the sets of stitches easier , it is usual to run at least one stitch at either side of the cable down to form a ladder . |
| 11 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 12 | This applies even if the change only affects a user manual . |
| 13 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 14 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 15 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 16 | In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's share of the German market fell , with Sun , IBM and Unisys Corp all riding a wave . |
| 18 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , y-yes , ’ she stammered , her heart suddenly finding a lot of extra energy . |
| 20 | The user merely supplies a title for the product and LIFESPAN allocates a product identifier to it . |
| 21 | ‘ How long ago was the floor solid enough to hold a party on it ? ’ |
| 22 | For example , if a programme successfully absorbed a cash limit squeeze in one year by increased efficiency , this expenditure saving was not carried forward into future plans . |
| 23 | Which car most deserves a trip to the crusher ? |
| 24 | The club badly need a manager of quality and stature and only two current First Division managers have an equal or better success rate , Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish and Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest . |
| 25 | The club badly need a manager of quality and stature and only two current First Division managers have an equal or better success rate , Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish and Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest . |
| 26 | Several milk crates of the plastic design will be turned upside down facing a line . |
| 27 | The American Psychological Association only established a Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in 1987 , twelve years after it founded the Division of the Psychology of Women . |
| 28 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 29 | Where a clause requires the making of an application to the President of the RICS it is sufficient for the applicant merely to send a letter making the application , even though the application will not be processed ( and hence will not come to the attention of the other party ) until the requisite fee is paid ( Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Co Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 EGLR 130 ) . |
| 30 | However , with BBC BASIC you can turn to a particular character in a file an the tedium only takes a couple of seconds , so it 's well worth doing . |