Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a kind of mystery tour , with an unimaginable destination ; not surprisingly many pupils fall asleep or jump off during the journey . |
| 2 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 3 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 4 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 5 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 6 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 7 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 8 | Well , I mean , this is important to read this than turn up at the garage . |
| 9 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 10 | But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia . |
| 11 | Because it will be a lot easier than going over to Bradford . |
| 12 | Instead of browsing on the ‘ Aufwuchs ’ on rocks , they feed mainly on organisms living in the substrate , but probably also eat anything tasty that comes along in the open . |
| 13 | Indeed , she could n't have got closer to doing what Cara wanted than to drive up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's house at the appointed time and ring his doorbell . |
| 14 | It is no longer a steam locomotive but a fast diesel pulling a trail of red , white and blue carriages , an express that rumbles down to Ashqelon between the orchards and the sea . |
| 15 | Nabiyev completed a two-day visit to Iran on June 30 and went on to Pakistan , returning to Tajikistan on July 4 . |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously , as a Liverpool fan , you have to be worried but I 'm perfectly hopeful that we 'll get through this and come back as the force that we always have been . ’ |
| 17 | On Siporax , it is claimed , the bacteria have no need of this and get on with the important job . |
| 18 | I did n't hear that either , do n't expect to get dressed like this and get out in it ? |
| 19 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 20 | If you are one of these people , I suggest that you stop reading this and move on to the next chapter . |
| 21 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 22 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 23 | The works , in whatever medium , must be self-sufficient and stand up for themselves . |
| 24 | No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength . |
| 25 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 26 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 27 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 28 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 29 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 30 | Some were sudden and burst out in a blaze , some were gradual and soundless and floated about in bits like tinsel blown and scattered , extinguishing one neither knew nor cared where . |