Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 2 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 3 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 4 | Now there 's the machine is g there the laminated copper er these commutators and it 's on main shaft that goes right through the generator and the turbine . |
| 5 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 6 | Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond . |
| 7 | Situated right on the beach and in the lively ‘ Golden Zone ’ , a wide variety of boutiques , restaurants , bars and discos lie practically at your doorstep ! |
| 8 | Situated right on the lakeside and next to the picturesque harbour in the centre of Menaggio , is the Hotel Bellavista . |
| 9 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 10 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 11 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 12 | it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ? |
| 13 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 14 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 15 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 16 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 17 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 18 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 19 | Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin . |
| 20 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 21 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 22 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 23 | ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York . |
| 24 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 25 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 26 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 27 | As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage . |
| 28 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 29 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 30 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |