Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva met the storm head on . |
| 2 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 3 | Mrs Abigail took a soup-plate from a cupboard and emptied the rice pudding on to it . |
| 4 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 5 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 6 | To continue with the example of assessing expenditure needs for Personal Social Services for the under fives lone-parent families are the main source of the population at risk , but there is no attempt to target the risk group more specifically . |
| 7 | Managing director Prabhdyal Sodhi told the hearing Dixon conspired to alert the health authority rather than go through the proper channels and complain to management . |
| 8 | Some classical organization theorists argued in favour of maintaining the authority principle even in conflict with expertise , so as to preserve the ‘ unity of command ’ essential to democratically accountable administration ( Gulick , 1937 ) . |
| 9 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 10 | Check by rotating the control knob fully clockwise . |
| 11 | As we understand it , nothing has changed in Japan but it still managed to make the news and push the share price higher , so that it ended the month in much the same place as it began . |
| 12 | With SVR4.1 ES as the generic source base for all future products , and UI 's goal is to reduce time to market with each technology release and push the operating system on into the commercial market . |
| 13 | About 1 cm from the outside edge of the ring , push the fabric square firmly into the ring so the centre is embedded in the foam by about 1cm and the fabric corners stand up . |
| 14 | Push the fabric squares firmly into the ring so the centre is embedded in the foam by about 1 cm and the fabric corners stand up |
| 15 | Push the lock casing fully home into the mortise . |
| 16 | Push the leaf sections just into it . |
| 17 | Larsen then passed the window pane down to Grant , and lowered himself through in turn . |
| 18 | The pholy passed the rice alcohol again , and this time Joseph gritted his teeth as the spirit burned a fiery track into his stomach . |
| 19 | When he went to the zoo he passed the elephant house quickly lest the irreverent onlooker should make comparisons . |
| 20 | Retracing our steps , we passed the reed screen once more and I gave a cursory glance through the hole . |
| 21 | His opponent was clumsily getting to his feet as Fleury snatched a violin from a rack of worm-eaten instruments ( the survivors of an attempt by the Collector to start a symphony orchestra in the cantonment ) , snapped it over his knee and leapt on to the sepoy 's back , at the same time whipping the violin strings tightly round the sepoy 's neck and dragging on them like reins . |
| 22 | Most library suppliers produce ‘ library editions ’ of fiction by buying up sets of book sheets from the publishers , adding double strength reinforcing and laminating the dust jackets on to their own boards — the end result having far greater durability than a publisher 's casing , and avoiding the need for binding after a couple of years ' use . |
| 23 | The majority believe that it is up to the Government to kick-start the housing market again . |
| 24 | It was mid-way through round two that a fired up Denny sprung the trap door here . |
| 25 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 26 | They pinned the Derry side back in their own half for long periods during the latter stages . |
| 27 | Last one they had in , ’ said Gloria , and she pinned the tin brooch on to Dot 's cardigan . |
| 28 | Manager Mark Ferguson warns his side to expect another tough battle but says : ‘ You can throw the form book away before this match ; it 's been shown at all levels that the cup has no respect for league positions . |
| 29 | While these high mountain areas are not suitable for any form of significant agricultural improvement , reintroduction of grazing will have altered the vegetation communities somewhat , preventing the slow reversion of semi-natural communities to more natural , rank vegetation with scrub encroachment on lower slopes . |
| 30 | Also , the Manager of the National Westminster 's Tywyn Branch will be at the Church service on Sunday morning as a representative of the Bank who sponsor the Award scheme nationally . |