Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future ? |
| 2 | They ram sticks upright into the stream bed . |
| 3 | The final obstacle to his progress was overcome just before sunrise and thus the sun god was reanimated to embark on his morning boat and bring light again to the earth . |
| 4 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |
| 5 | The one exception , says Professor Garrow , is if you lose weight quickly on a crash diet , because you will lose more lean tissue than with gradual weight loss , and that does make the metabolism less efficient . |
| 6 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 7 | The Sheriff Clerk , instead of completing the separate SCLA 3 , will indicate on the application form whether legal aid has been granted or refused , photo-copy it ( or make a typewritten copy ) and pass the photo-copy to the Local Secretary who will add on to the photo-copy the intimation to the nominated solicitor and send copies thereof to the nominated solicitor , the accused and others . |
| 8 | Place upside down in a dish and pour over the butter , sprinkle with salt and add a tablespoon of vermouth . |
| 9 | ‘ Other uniformed officer and plain clothed detectives rushed from the station in Edward Street in an effort to close off the roads and usher passers-by away from the van . ’ |
| 10 | ( The hypothesis supposes that voters have a short memory : they expect continuity only from the incumbent . ) |
| 11 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 12 | Feed and dead-head plants regularly for a long-lasting display |
| 13 | Drill or melt holes all round the bottom of the canister . |
| 14 | The order grew immensely wealthy and place names all over the country still remind us of lands that they once owned . |
| 15 | The commitment to armaments development is matched by a fearsome degree of hatred for Nationalists held by UFF and UVF activists particularly in the Shankill area . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't want a nurse who might scream or faint when matters become difficult , or would swoon at the sight of blood , ’ said Dr Neil , a little frantically , trying to care for his patient and send McAllister away at the same time . |
| 17 | When pan is very hot , press lamb down with a fish slice for five minutes on each side or until golden outside and pink inside . |
| 18 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 19 | When he put both test tubes in b 's territory , b tried to attack a through the glass and a tried to flee ; Tinbergen then moved both test tubes across to a 's territory , and now a tried to attack , and b to flee . |
| 20 | If yer remember , yer 'ad ter send Bessie out fer a couple o' pound last Friday ter tide us over till Monday . ’ |
| 21 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 22 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 23 | Other adjustments include those in Sri Lanka , where enterprises can , where costs suggest location close to a supply of raw materials , get the benefits without being physically in the zone . |
| 24 | ‘ Right , ’ Emily said with more confidence than she felt , ‘ please send Letty in with a tray of tea , I 'm quite thirsty . ’ |
| 25 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 26 | Crash girl back from the dead |
| 27 | bring emotions out into the open ; |
| 28 | The influence of the Bauhaus , de Stijl and Josef Albers together with the relationship between LeWitt and fellow Americans Judd , Morris , André and Flavin and the contrasting preoccupations of British and European sculpture , are two important themes . |
| 29 | Russell said , " Before you leave , put money down for a mescal . " |
| 30 | It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge . |