Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just what chemicals make up the cocktail in the mine shaft . |
| 2 | Everyone went mad , stripping off their tops to soak up the sun , doing handstands and laying out tents and kit to dry — until the rain started again ! ’ |
| 3 | Observers noted , however , that after the seventh party plenum , the government had stepped up its efforts to rein in the country 's increasingly outspoken journalists , especially after a conference of writers in October defied the party 's attempt to dictate proceedings and demanded more democracy in the country [ see p. 37123 for approval of a new restrictive press law at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly in late December 1989 ] . |
| 4 | It provides , secondly , that long elusive missing link , decision taken on 5 Corps ' signal on 23 May reiterating that it could only carry out its orders to hand over the Cossacks if it was given authorization to use force . |
| 5 | Presently his feet took up the restless pacing that had become the rhythm of his curious existence behind the locked attic door . |
| 6 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 7 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 8 | Gardeners have been inviting the public to look round their allotments to show off the advantages of organic methods of growing vegetables . |