Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 2 | We try to determine the bodily functions that have become disjointed … the patient should have a good sleep , eat properly and the bowels must move more regularly . |
| 3 | It 's just the works like a trade union thing , they sit down and the management 'll tell them , or the workforce 'll say what about this , that and the other |
| 4 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 5 | The base comes in two sections which simply slot together and the top is fixed by putting the four screws provided into pre-drilled holes . |
| 6 | Use to model a head , a torso and two arms — mould the body and head together but the arms separately . |
| 7 | These mate , fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on . |
| 8 | The extracts from a dirty movie fade away and the Inspirals clamber into their Scandia van , delighted with the comments of a Finnish woman journalist who had told them , ‘ You make music that is going somewhere while at the same time standing still and one day it will end in a big BOOM ! ’ |
| 9 | When an intruder approaches , the parents fly off and the chicks sit tight no matter how close it comes . |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't be a footballer when you grow up and the girls ’ toilets are messy . ’ |
| 11 | If things go wrong inside a tin , gases build up and the contents swell and the whole thing explodes … |
| 12 | During June and July , heavy cloud may at times build up and the weather can become very humid . |
| 13 | Consider a cube which is disassembled into its pieces and imagine reassembling the pieces so that the outside facelets remain outside and the centres remain in the same relative positions . |
| 14 | The Speaker has to use his power of selection drastically , choosing about a quarter of the amendments put down but the discussions are extensive , the committee stage usually allowing some twenty hours of debate followed by a report stage and third reading . |
| 15 | We leave the room feeling let down and the boss , no doubt , feels much the same . |
| 16 | But in practice , bullying takes place around the stalls ; there are mor difficulties in handling animals for routine inspection ; or the electronics break down and the key wo n't work . |
| 17 | In continuing calm and cold conditions the pancakes fuse together and the ice sheet thickens further , by growth of amorphous crystals and accretion of ice platelets — flat crystals — from below ( Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 18 | At this time the excitation is switched to phase let only and the transition to the final step is accomplished from a small initial error with consequently small overshoot . |
| 19 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 20 | It is a question which will take on a more hard-nosed approach once the euphoria of post-World Cup celebrations die down and the reality of the 1992 season , with the test challenges of Scotland and the All Blacks plus the Wallaby tour of Ireland and Wales and possibly South Africa , arrives . |
| 21 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 22 | Playa Del Ingles is only a ten minute walk away and the discos and general hub of nightlife only five minutes . |
| 23 | HOLED UP through the summer months in a succession of Press-boxes , commodious and quaint , perky and poky , the eyes eventually glaze over , the joints seize up and the marbles get sluggish . |
| 24 | In ‘ Great Expectations ’ all the character speak differently and the way that Dickens portrays them to speak all fits in with the character . |
| 25 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 26 | 3–4 The fuses fizzle out and the gun fails to fire . |
| 27 | Near the top the trees die out and the landscape which replaces them is a shock , for here the rock enters into full possession , turbulent acres of it , broken and jagged . |
| 28 | Finally we climb back and the bus continues . |
| 29 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel as it lost height . |
| 30 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel over a lake as it lost height . |