Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got an hour or two to fill in before my train . |
| 3 | She blinked at Shiona and half sat up on the bed . |
| 4 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 5 | In the first week after the birth , she can safely leave her litter of up to six cubs , though more usually three , hidden in the den and helpless to move around on their own , while she hunts . |
| 6 | Croatia and the JNA late on Aug. 27 agreed to a new ceasefire after talks in Brioni between Tudjman , Defence Minister Kadijevic and Chief of Staff Gen. Adzic but this broke down within hours as fighting resumed in Vukovar . |
| 7 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 8 | The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block . |
| 9 | There is nothing worse than playing two superb shots to get within spitting distance of the green on that monster par five , then fluffing two chips and three-putting to end up with the dreaded double-bogey . |
| 10 | Scrumpy should come up , scrumpy should come up all clouded you know , you know with bits of sheep and er bit bits of sheep and rats and that lying about in it were they 've thrown them into the you think I 'm joking do n't you ? |
| 11 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 12 | And the f the the younger apprentices used to plunk on a Monday afternoon and all go along to Street to the this and she says , You did n't need to buy sweeties it was the rails of the gallery were sticking with toffee . |
| 13 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 14 | Their liabilities are long term and the probabilities of both unforeseen shortfalls of income and unanticipated paying out of benefits are low . |
| 15 | It covered all manual workers and those earning up to a given sum — 430 a year by 1942 . |
| 16 | Lydia in the leading car was loth to hoot for fear of maddening the dogs and loth to get out for the same reason . |
| 17 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 18 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 19 | I 'll squeeze a minute or two to come back at lunchtime , and I 'll bring some things for your throat then . |
| 20 | And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence . |
| 21 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 22 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 23 | Now in the inside of that it opens out , there 's an opening in the bone and that leads down among other things into a tube down here , now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across |
| 24 | And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village . |
| 25 | Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads . |
| 26 | Inefficient arrangements and obdurate holding up of reports by British correspondents from the task force goaded Thatcher and a group of MPs to attack the BBC for subversion . |
| 27 | ‘ The highlanders , ’ testified one Jacobite present , ‘ though faint with hunger and ready to drop down with fatigue and want of sleep , seemed to forget all their hardships at the approach of the enemy . |
| 28 | Second , part and parcel of the internal debates about the constitution of the Labour Party are larger debates about the limits and problems of the British constitution and these spill over into a case for reconstructing the British constitution itself in order to fashion a different kind of democracy and a third road to socialism . |
| 29 | If one adult is in role and another remains out of role the roles adopted can be pushed farther ; it is easier to take on very challenging Devil 's Advocate roles . |
| 30 | Creamy , blue-veined Dolcelatte is the perfect way to round off your meals and delicious to nibble in between . |