Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a 50 p.c. increase in mortgage offers last time we cut our rates — in December — but that levelled off because of uncertainty about the election . |
| 2 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 3 | With the old F sixteen its like a couch , you sit like that , its just the joy stick in your right hand and you 've got all your buttons there , whereas the old Russian one 's just a p , a normal sit up and on a joy of a column , its amazing how they fly , make those flew once they do |
| 4 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 5 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 6 | Yet we so often feel guilty and uncomfortable ; we feel like children , afraid to own up because of what might happen . |
| 7 | The British sailed up and down the river , trying to find an opening to land troops to the west of the city , and in September they were successful . |
| 8 | In Ainslie 's opinion , this came about because of its greater international impact as an English paper . |
| 9 | It is unfashionable to point out that for most of his two decades in office Marcos enjoyed considerable grass-roots favour . |
| 10 | So in enclosed areas like that this breaks down but in the open ocean system you 've got this very strong constant ratio . |
| 11 | They were afraid to venture out except in convoys . ’ |
| 12 | The Independent of May 2 pointed out that with two minor cases concerning Urbatechnic going through the courts the commission " would probably have to declare most of Urba 's affairs sub judice and thus spare the socialists themselves " . |
| 13 | In the same way it is possible to learn further shaping methods to produce garments not only quicker to make up but with the actual machine-made shaping as a feature of the completed garment . |
| 14 | Do you see what I mean I do n't want this to drag on and on |
| 15 | Because it is not easy to scale up or down most of the designs used in Romano-British mosaics , or in Roman mosaics generally , the room of unusual shape or size frequently received filling panels and other special treatments . |
| 16 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 17 | Well it 's pretty difficult actually to put a cupboard up a wall , I admit they 're very easy to make up but to actually hold this cupboard . |
| 18 | The second comes about because of the breakeven requirement and is necessary if subsidies are disallowed . |
| 19 | After Christianity was introduced , it acquired its name because it was likely to flower on or around May 8 in the old calendar , the feastday of Michael the Archangel . |
| 20 | It is finally uneconomical to go on and on repairing the sturdy Liberation trucks , the government argued : far better to stimulate the economy by buying a glossy new vehicle , and throwing away the old . |
| 21 | You form the impression that the two of them do not actively encourage function bookings which are likely to go on until after 23.00 hours . |
| 22 | The speed with which some of these flew over or past the big straw bosses , 100 yards away from the shooting line , is quite alarming . |
| 23 | But on the morning Saturday morning when the exam was being er sat in the county school in I was very very ill , too ill to get up until about eleven o'clock when it was too late . |
| 24 | These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality . |
| 25 | You were right to point out that from now until polling day , whenever it may be , will be somewhat tortuous not just for the watching public but for Members who sit in this Chamber . |
| 26 | Recession in 1981 came about because of Britain 's poor manufacturing and general economic performance ; today 's widespread receiverships are the result of over-inflated land values and a worldwide slowdown . |
| 27 | all blow over and in fact |
| 28 | All locked up and in darkness . |
| 29 | They all went out except for Father Martin who closed the door and sat on the bed . |
| 30 | but he must of been all worked up and since then I 've had a right struggle , most nights |