Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house .
2 Training is directed towards encouraging advisers to recognise such clients and then help them to resolve their problems themselves with self-help material , which is produced in many areas .
3 They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ .
4 ‘ Nothing can hurt me now , ’ she said blithely , reaching out her hands one on each side towards them .
5 Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects .
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