Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two trial drillings produced results that attracted the interest of several US companies , but negotiations to exploit the well for commercial use broke down because they insisted on full control over the project , which the St Lucia government refused because it considered it to be a matter of national interest . |
| 2 | He always laughed noiselessly , his jaw snapping up and down as he took in great gulps of air . |
| 3 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 4 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 5 | £60m paid off as we save for rainy day |
| 6 | So he phoned up and he had to redial two or three times before he started . |
| 7 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |
| 8 | How can I find out whether it runs on lead-free petrol ? |
| 9 | Calday Grange Grammar School also faced a second ballot over opting out after it applied for grant-maintained status last year . |
| 10 | TV host Matthew Kelly stuck his neck out when he tangled with British Bulldog wrestler Davey Boy Smith . |
| 11 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 12 | we can always get hold of the stuff here , save you lugging it around because they come in big boxes and that |
| 13 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |