Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bases the idea of obligation to law , reasons for acquiescing in or committing oneself to legal process , on the value of the ends which thus become attainable . |
| 2 | He placed a small amount of the substance in his hand and one by one the worshippers knelt down and licked it like hungry animals . |
| 3 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 4 | Hands in his clay-coloured raincoat , Gaily , myopic , bent down and read one at random , wonderingly . |
| 5 | ‘ If I came along and accused you of sharp practice , you 'd be righteously indignant . |
| 6 | The best she could hope for was that someone would come along and abuse her in various disgusting and incomprehensible ways . |
| 7 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 8 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 9 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 10 | DEFINITION : Research is ringing someone up and asking them for other people 's names . |
| 11 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 12 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 13 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 14 | Mr Rifkind 's inclination is to split it up and offer it for tender , perhaps line by line , in the way that provincial bus services have been deregulated . |
| 15 | Sprinkle the inside with chopped fennel , close them up and brush them with melted butter . |
| 16 | Most land fell to the peasants who had tilled it for decades and the landlords or rentiers who held large amounts of land , renting it out or tilling it by hired labour . |
| 17 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 18 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 19 | So all concert-goers can sit back and enjoy plenty of Black magic this weekend . |