Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of taking attitudes as relatively straightforward guides to behaviour and expressed as opinions , they sought to measure attitudes more as dispositional and rooted deeper in the personality . |
| 2 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 3 | Drama makes an important contribution towards realising the overall aims of English as set out in chapter 2 . |
| 4 | The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine and whipped up into meringue peaks . |
| 5 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 6 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 7 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 8 | He was pointing at Robert and yelling something that sounded like Arabic but turned out to be very emotional English . |
| 9 | You 'll study like mad revise like mad and come out with a C. |
| 10 | All BlueLine sales are channelled through outside distributors , who , in effect , become a selling arm for International and deal directly with retailers and end-use customers . |
| 11 | They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house . |
| 12 | The stronger sense of is strike off " , wrench loose " , and this is surely the last in a progression of " violent " verbs , beginning with diffugere and going on through and before coming to ( or rather , ) at the poem 's despairing close . |
| 13 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 14 | Invariably Titron came up , green water avalanching into white that flared back in the wind . |
| 15 | However , the victory in the Lok Sabha election was far from emphatic and owed much to the so-called " sympathy vote " aroused by the assassination of the party 's leader , Rajiv Gandhi , soon after voting had started in mid-May [ see pp. 38175-76 ] . |
| 16 | Besides being free from ‘ knocking ’ , an engine must start from cold and operate reliably under all conditions . |
| 17 | Bake for 1¼ hrs until firm and shrinking away from the sides of the tin . |
| 18 | The corner 's been quickly taken and knocked in long but cleared again by Leicester . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 'll go across and have a chat with that young fallow who came in the other day , ’ Phil said in a conversational tone to no one in particular and rushed out to Sister Cooney 's office . |
| 20 | Much of the remainder of the village 's pasture land would also have been held in common and consisted probably of rough grazing , perhaps within a wood . |
| 21 | Paying once a month for goods requires less money on average than paying separately for each item purchased . |
| 22 | Do n't be over suspicious and try not to over react — this could be unfair on your child . |
| 23 | But most of them had come back to work reasonably cap-in-hand , preferring to be half-starved on half-pay than to starve altogether on none . |
| 24 | ‘ We went to Nice and stayed overnight at a hotel . |
| 25 | Sadly , Stirling gave orders for much of the equipment to be off loaded and sent back to Kabrit . |
| 26 | She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself . |
| 27 | Er these are sort of parties that start at midnightish and go on through the night . |