Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the bottom is not too weedy I constantly twitch the bait along the bottom a few inches at a time . |
| 2 | In 1986 I too entered the tomb ; the anthropoid leaden shell was resealed after the 1703 examination and placed in a new rectangular elm shell sans fittings . |
| 3 | The blade is repeatedly thrust into the ground in different spots nearby until I get the best possible signal — and when I get that I then know the rabbit and/or ferret is immediately beneath the spade . |
| 4 | I am perhaps out of line with some of my hon. Friends in that I quite enjoyed the speech made by the Secretary of State for the Environment , who opened the debate for the Government . |
| 5 | as a last sort of erm two days of the sale or something , they have their special offer next week or fifty percent off everything or something I feel sorry for these places really , that do you know it 's funny I only saw the car immediately in front of this grey one in there must of been a dip there because there 's two cars in front of me |
| 6 | Paxton was a young gardener at Chatsworth when , encouraged by the 6th Duke , he built a giant conservatory 300 feet long , 145 feet wide by 60 feet high which soon attracted the world 's attention and led to Paxton being commissioned to build the Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 7 | ‘ Any nuisance is public which materially affects the comfort and convenience of a class of Her Majesty 's subjects ’ . |
| 8 | New Zealand 's National Party government unveiled a highly controversial budget on July 30 which severely curtailed the country 's welfare state by designating about one-half of the population as sufficiently affluent to pay for its health , education , housing and retirement needs . |
| 9 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |
| 10 | The ideal pitch attitude was easy to maintain , being with the top of the engine cowling just below the horizon , and like this we quickly reached the fiftyknot lift-off speed to part company with the viscous sea and curve easily away over the Solent . |
| 11 | Volcanic eruptions like this one probably assisted the development of life on our planet . |
| 12 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 13 | In ( 33 ) 2 we also have the inference that utterance ( iii ) counts as a repeat request . |
| 14 | In this they increasingly have the support of the wardens of PPA . |
| 15 | When a clerk of the course comes out with a statement like this it seriously weakens the case of those , like myself , who would like to see transport allowances reintroduced . |
| 16 | Thereafter during the 1820s and 1830s he greatly expanded the firm 's architectural side — following his father 's death in 1827 he devoted his time entirely to architecture , leaving the management of the marble works to his younger brother Francis — and established a substantial practice in the north-west and the adjacent parts of Yorkshire . |
| 17 | In 1985 it also reduced the number of Wages Councils affecting the pay of young workers . |
| 18 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |
| 19 | With mandatory spending projected to exceed 50 per cent of total outlays in 1993 , Darman proposed to remedy this " fundamental flaw in the present system of budget discipline " by introducing a cap on mandatory spending growth similar to that which already controlled the growth of discretionary spending . |
| 20 | That question must be determined by reference to general principles , or which the first ( and in most cases also the last ) is that judicial proceedings are supposed to take place openly , and publication of those proceedings is ‘ merely enlarging the area of the court , and communicating to all that which all has the right to know ’ ( per Lord Halsbury , L.C. in MacDougall v. Knight [ 1989 ] A.C. 194 at p.200 . |
| 21 | I did that because I got an amazing about of money and to be honest I rather liked the idea of swanning around in a special effects car . |
| 22 | To be quite honest I quite like the iron |
| 23 | Erm , if there 's something needs doing extra you just ask the person who 's best for the job to sort it out and to do it for you . |
| 24 | Christine de Pisan and Alain Chartier are two such who also attract the attention of historians for a different reason , namely that they were observers and critics of the world of early fifteenth-century France , both of them having things to say which , they hoped , would turn it into a better world . |
| 25 | The judges were so incredulous they twice remeasured the length of the course . |
| 26 | It was pointed out that the education budget had grown each year since 1988 and that for 1991 it again exceeded the defence budget . |
| 27 | In February 1929 he actually accused the majority of the Central Committee of creating a ‘ military-feudal exploitation of the peasantry ’ . |
| 28 | The recoil was so violent it almost tore the weapon from his grasp , but he was rewarded by a cry of pain from one of the enemy . |
| 29 | He said typical what fucking breaking the machine already ? |
| 30 | It 's a cardinal rule Designers work to that you never upset the audience by breaking the train of suspense . |