Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The beach here was narrow and unpopulated , although there were plenty of small yachts out on the water . |
2 | Although there are plenty of small traders around to whom EDI still means nothing , BT predicts that within two to three years over 50,000 firms worldwide will be using it . |
3 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
4 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
5 | At Pagham Harbour there has been a very sharp increase from one to three pairs up to 1974 to 12 in 1976 . |
6 | Pictures of old , tired faces : Madge 's made vacant by drugs , Bella 's grey with pain on a bad day , threw themselves like projected images on to the white kitchen wall . |
7 | The centre does n't have accommodation of its own , rather it organises accommodation for visitors in anything from local bunkhouses up to country hotels — depending on how much people want to pay . |