Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yellowish-gray brick houses gave straight on to the street , which she had found only after turning out of another one , and then another . |
| 2 | The one unshaded light bulb shone continuously down at her , and she was kept in complete silence . |
| 3 | While he stood in amazement and distress Simon moved quietly about like a hound searching for a line . |
| 4 | The pale young sailor in the silver frame stared serenely out across the wide spaces of the kitchen with faraway forget-me-not eyes . |
| 5 | But the landscape became grander and more exciting as we drove north ; great fiords cut deep into the land , and mountain-sides of lava screes towered away up into the clouds . |
| 6 | After hours of gruelling clearing-up work Duncan leapt lightly down from the van with the words ‘ I enjoyed that — I 'm looking forward to next year . ’ |
| 7 | A wide ice slope led gently up to the pass . |
| 8 | She could n't see much of it because the thrust stage ran onward out of sight … but you did n't have to down the entire egg to know that it was rotten . |
| 9 | Now the trick films came particularly out of the pioneers ' own attitude to their apparatus . |
| 10 | He would never have recognized Cinzia Miletti if she had n't approached him , for she was virtually in disguise : a silk scarf entirely covering her hair , dark glasses and a long tweed coat buttoned right up to the chin . |
| 11 | Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet , now 190 miles north of Oahu . |
| 12 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
| 13 | On one occasion Wallace rode daringly down upon Scone and put to flight an English justiciar who was busily pronouncing outlawry upon anyone who refused to swear loyalty to Edward . |
| 14 | The phone call came right out of the blue : would I like to take a small party up north to Spitsbergen ? |
| 15 | The idea of co-operative course planning grew naturally out of this commitment to mixed ability teaching and in October 1976 a second staff conference embraced the idea that an emphasis should be placed on ‘ the learning process in all courses ’ . |
| 16 | When she had lugged her third skip up to the scribbling engine , she paused for a moment to watch Rose , who by now resembled a tar baby stuck all over with dirty wool . |
| 17 | Bolt Head stared impassively out of the window at the dramatic skyline of Manhattan . |
| 18 | Guillemots and razor bills whirred rapidly out to sea , surface-dived for fish , and whirred back again to feed hungry chicks . |
| 19 | The tractor ruts led straight on to a farm gate . |
| 20 | After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square . |
| 21 | As the men went out of the door Laura stared glumly over at the young policewoman . |
| 22 | The vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass decreased steadily down to about 100 m . |
| 23 | I could not have opened it then in any case , for that would have been a physical impossibility — tempting though the picture is of the evil creature on the other side of the door getting a well-deserved spasm of slimy stomach bile heaved right up into his florid and trendily moustachioed face . |
| 24 | Hauser wore dark glasses , a wide-brimmed straw hat pulled well down over his face . |
| 25 | The men wore rubber ponchos and had exchanged their black berets for jungle hats pulled well down against the rain so that he was unable to discern whether Miguelito was amongst their number . |
| 26 | Enjoying a fantastic location in Kos town , you 'll find the Hotel Catherine set just back from the lively , bustling harbour , right in the centre of town and ideally placed for both the beach and nightlife . |
| 27 | Just before the end , their fly-half Matthews kicked badly out of defence . |
| 28 | On the left is a mole carcase turned inside out with many of the bones still attached to the inverted skin ; in the middle , partial remains of mole ( top left ) and vole ( bottom left ) treated in the same way , and bird remains to the right ; and on the right two kestrel pellets . |
| 29 | Sunset Cottage stood well back from the lane , on rising ground . |
| 30 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |