Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 2 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 3 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 4 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 5 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 6 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 7 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 8 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 9 | Will the Frys lay into me , send Vern off into the night , tell me I need my head examining making friends with that sort of boy ? |
| 10 | Hawkwind rely extensively on a canon of work virtually unchanged since their mid-'70s ‘ Space Ritual ’ album . |
| 11 | Yes I think that 's the sort of thing when you 're a defender the goalkeeper s the goalkeeper 's almost on it but if you 're not sure you get rid of the thing and then say turn round to the keeper sorry pall but I 'm playing safe . |
| 12 | I say come here like a dog , you say come here and they come here |
| 13 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 14 | Tap ENTER only at the end of the last line . |
| 15 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 16 | Tell him it 's the sort of thing no woman would want let out of the bag . |
| 17 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 18 | ‘ I mean act either as a policeman , or a member . |
| 19 | But put say like in the Body Shop and get a couple of animal soaps . |
| 20 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 21 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 22 | In the hazy conditions a bright yellow camera bag was spotted first , a few feet from the corpse , which was lodged face down between a rock and a bush . |
| 23 | When we have a complete account of the brain , we are assured , consciousness will be intellectually transparent and the mind will assume its rightful place as just another part of ( physical ) nature , obedient to the laws that hold sway elsewhere in the material universe . |
| 24 | Birds are prominent on the tundra , especially in summer when migrant waders and waterfowl pour in from the south ; only a few species are year-round residents . |
| 25 | ‘ There can be no doubt that the obscenely violent films and videos now transmitted contribute greatly to the climate of violence for which a terrible price is now being paid , even the life of a two-year-old child , ’ she said . |
| 26 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 27 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
| 28 | When I cleaned it up , I found it to be in really good condition and one of the nicest I have ever seen come out of the river . |
| 29 | Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back . |
| 30 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |