Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone seems to have it in for his most recent book , The Larger Evils . |
| 2 | Leo demanded as he wrenched back to stare down into her almost terror-stricken face . |
| 3 | At last he released her , setting her back on her feet as he gazed down into her strangely unfocused eyes . |
| 4 | Not always content to watch from the sidelines , some of them have joined in with their more confident brand of anti-lesbianism . |
| 5 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
| 6 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 7 | Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility . |
| 8 | In 1975 , he helped to found a new anti-EEC party , Scottish Conservatives Against the Treaty of Rome , and was appointed an honorary vice-president along with his then fellow Scottish Tory MP , Teddy Taylor , |
| 9 | The inevitable long loose mackintosh and knitted scarf were in evidence , which along with his totally bald head had long made Sammy the victim of local humour . |
| 10 | This , Kochan points out , is where the theory fell down in its optimistically erroneous assessment of the prospects of revolution in the Western World . |
| 11 | Though the Doctor was first out , looking around in calm appraisal , Clairvius Dubois almost knocked him down in his surprisingly sprightly enthusiasm to see what Mait 's home was actually like . |
| 12 | With an immense effort she dragged her gaze free , clamped down on her wildly over-active imagination . |
| 13 | In any case the normal cost of equipping a good boat with an efficient crew would certainly not be higher , and probably be a little lower after the trade had settled down to its now increased dimensions than before . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , that 's all down to our incredibly exciting conversation on the plane . ’ |
| 15 | Unselfconscious of his near-nakedness , he reached down to his carelessly heaped clothing and extracted his shirt from it . |
| 16 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 17 | ‘ It means that , since the de Sciorto title dates from the mid-sixteenth century , I come somewhere in the middle of the pecking order , ’ he grinned , his eyes lidded as he moved his gaze down over her defensively folded arms , lingering on the golden swell of her breasts at the button fastening on her T-shirt . |
| 18 | The man looking down at her wore an imposing set of whiskers , a grey beard hung down over his brightly coloured waistcoat and thick , waving grey hair sprouted back from his forehead , giving him the look of an ageing lion . |
| 19 | Four-speaker radio/cassette , clock , sun visors which slot neatly into roof recesses and a wide dashboard with shelf on top add up to an interior only let down by its rather cheap plastic finish . |
| 20 | But at least it would be better than letting herself be drawn in by his very potent brand of masculine attraction . |
| 21 | Me and Andy looked all over for you both last night I had a few things on my mind |
| 22 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 23 | Her performance was about what he 'd expected but they brushed through without anything too awful happening . |
| 24 | And when you 've sent off for our supremely stylish blazer ( page 50 ) I hope you 'll enjoy browsing through Classics ( loose-inserted in this edition ) , a catalogue of the best fashion and home offers produced in recent months by SHE and some of our sister magazines including Country Living , Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping . |
| 25 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 26 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 27 | Her hair was swept up off her finely boned face , emphasising her long neck . |
| 28 | These people have always Done Things in previous lives , perhaps to make up for their rather undistinguished efforts while being alive and in their own bodies . |
| 29 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 30 | The Scheissekommando was made up of our most cultured patients : academics , rabbis , writers , philosophers . |