Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 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 .
11 She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated .
12 ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east .
13 Indeed , the JMU will automatically consider adding an investment business inspection on to an audit monitoring visit to an authorised firm .
14 ( 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 .
15 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 .
16 He gripped it with his hands , got his foot on to the latch , heaved up and rolled over the top .
17 Delaney swung a foot on to the ladder .
18 With a bit of practice , you can learn to put a condom on without the punter knowing you 've done it !
19 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 .
20 incentive to get us up this last steep pull on to the summit of Beinn Ghlas .
21 l Louise looked at her young son and suggested he might like to take his easel on to the patio .
22 A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum .
23 a move and that really he 's quite fortunate to have a buyer somewhere within the price he wanted .
24 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 .
25 As Ilse happily slipped out of her thin white overall , Ingrid noticed the audience tossing money on to a plate which was being passed around .
26 Girls cheered and threw money on to the stage , but the curtain came down , the head hit him again and , with the curtain back up , the youngster was caned in the middle of the performance .
27 Until the industrial action frustrated plans for more formal INSET workshops , the open nature of the school 's formal consultative procedures , and the vigour and commitment of key individuals , seems to have spread discussion of library matters and project-involvement widely across the school .
28 Tantalisingly , at night , I might hear the plaintive hoot of a tawny owl somewhere in the trees , beyond my little world .
29 The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner .
30 The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens .
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