Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 2 | Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked . |
| 3 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 4 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 5 | In other countries too , inflation will be a worry right at the start of the coming upswing . |
| 6 | Trim away excess and place the base on to the cake drum . |
| 7 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 8 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 9 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 10 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 11 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 12 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east . |
| 14 | Indeed , the JMU will automatically consider adding an investment business inspection on to an audit monitoring visit to an authorised firm . |
| 15 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 16 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 17 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 18 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 19 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 20 | Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer . |
| 21 | Delaney swung a foot on to the ladder . |
| 22 | He gripped it with his hands , got his foot on to the latch , heaved up and rolled over the top . |
| 23 | With a bit of practice , you can learn to put a condom on without the punter knowing you 've done it ! |
| 24 | I think it would prefer to blame somebody who 's already responsible — as you 'll know if you really do read the papers — for every dead dog and blocked drain right across the world . |
| 25 | incentive to get us up this last steep pull on to the summit of Beinn Ghlas . |
| 26 | l Louise looked at her young son and suggested he might like to take his easel on to the patio . |
| 27 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
| 28 | a move and that really he 's quite fortunate to have a buyer somewhere within the price he wanted . |
| 29 | Zigzagging our way down the street we saw a car coming towards us and thought some terrible error had allowed the driver on to the toboggan track . |
| 30 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |