Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 2 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 3 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 4 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 5 | The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire . |
| 6 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 7 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 8 | The Profitboss only sub-contracts out as a last resort . |
| 9 | The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) . |
| 10 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 11 | This mode of political religious action no longer starts out from a universal centre and figure , such as the papacy , but rather from the national or local church within the state , whose ‘ magistrates ’ — Calvin 's term for lay political leaders — are ideally Christians of moral rectitude , who perform this duty as one ordained by God . |
| 12 | Thus the very vibrancy of Impressionist or Pointillist paintings may well result from the discrimination of thousands of similar bits of colour data , all emerging as dots of similar hue , brightness , size or shape so that each momentarily stands out as a mini-figure against all the rest . |
| 13 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 14 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 15 | Lesley-Jane will be fine if she just rests up for a few days . |
| 16 | Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters . |
| 17 | When it finally pulls in to a kerb up a side street a hundred yards away , a voice supplies commentary from his second-floor window . |
| 18 | The engineer who sets about designing an efficient sonar or radar device soon comes up against a problem resulting from the need to make the pulses extremely loud . |
| 19 | Oracle Applications Release 9 currently operates only with Oracle 6 , but will be certified to run with Oracle7 when that finally comes out in a production release . |
| 20 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 21 | It is a world of high camp comedy and low-life sex , a world in which a drag queen eventually ends up with a rent boy . |
| 22 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 23 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |
| 24 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
| 25 | Some of the tracks have been available already — if you bought the limited edition live versions of the singles ‘ Stop ’ and ‘ Shivering Sand ’ — but ‘ IT ’ still holds up as a worthwhile representation of the Megas ' consistent live set ; in full and in earnest . |
| 26 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 27 | It 's different here , Léonie tried to explain : in our kitchen in London no one ever drops in for a chat . |
| 28 | The foreign-language teacher usually starts off with a class with a set to learn . |
| 29 | It usually ends up like a cross between The Sun 's ‘ Things You Never Knew ’ column and The Times Literary Review . |
| 30 | I , I am friendly with them you know I , I go every Wednesday there , for er , well when I can , every Wednesday because something , something always creeps up on a Wednesday to keep away from them , er , sort of for tea and then with |