Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now breathe in slowly as you did in Step 1 but gradually raise your arms overhead in time with the inhalation until the backs of your hands touch the floor . |
| 2 | Kenny disagrees : ‘ Anthropomorphism comes in only if we attribute to [ animals ] concepts whose possession can not be manifested by recognition and non-verbal reaction ‘ ( 1975 : 51 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Thompson called in just after you went to lunch . |
| 4 | On fine days they would walk the length of the creek , down past where it trickled under Deptford Bridge into the sports field at Saint Johns . |
| 5 | The job analysts are in the position of actually making sure that a job description is filled in correctly before it goes to the jury on which Phil sits . |
| 6 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 7 | ‘ Explained ? ’ he cut in ruthlessly as he struggled to his feet . |
| 8 | Eventually , we realized that our school work was suffering and a few of us turned him down flat when it came to the sports and he did n't like it . |
| 9 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 10 | The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path . |
| 11 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 12 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 13 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 14 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 15 | Well turn it off now if you wan na watch in fifteen minutes . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end . |
| 17 | Oh yes you blank me off then when you go to sleep . |
| 18 | Third World elites , as a rule , get off lightly when it comes to paying tax — certainly in comparison with their counterparts in the developed world . |
| 19 | And all the time , work going on internally while I wrestled with rigging and sails , mostly on the open deck . |
| 20 | This will build up obviously as we go through the course . |
| 21 | It pulled up exactly where they intended to and out got a drenched Barbara Coleman who scuffled through the nearest doorway . |
| 22 | She had never used an iron nor threaded a needle , been on a bus nor cooked a meal for other people , earned money , got up early because she had to , waited to see the doctor or stood in a queue . |
| 23 | In the summer holidays I can , I can get up early if I want to . |
| 24 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 25 | I was so glad that I was up here when she came off stage . |
| 26 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 27 | But wrap up well before you go through that garden because it 's enough to freeze you out there . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's hard enough to get up there when we have to . |
| 29 | SHAW Branch Manager John Powell had to pay up quicker than he expected after promising his staff an expenses-paid outing if they achieved their Royal Scottish leads target . |
| 30 | In 1979 he appeared in Coppola 's Apocalypse Now , but his career did n't really begin to pick up again until he checked into Cedar-Sinai Medical Center 's drug abuse programme in 1984 . |