Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked in the direction he was pointing — Roman villa , vestal virgins ' tent , WI stalls with Aunt Bedelia and Mrs Cartwright frantically buttering and jamming home-made scones , street theatre , Punch and Judy , and there 's old Jeremiah just passing the jazz band with his fingers in his ears . |
| 2 | All too often anyone passing through rural England hardly senses the farm worker 's presence , for the fields are deceptively still and during the day-time the villages can also be devoid of any human activity . |
| 3 | Railworkers in central Poland also joined the stoppage , cutting the link with the industrial south-west , and in addition a hunger strike began in Slupsk . |
| 4 | Travel to Gatwick from outside London also includes the Underground from Victoria and the Gatwick Express Rail Service ( every 15 minutes throughout the day ) right into the heart of the airport . |
| 5 | From the early Republic to the later Empire the art and culture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece strongly influenced the art of the Romans . |
| 6 | A further deep Atlantic low gave the bulk of the population their wettest day of the month on the 23rd but , from the 25th to the 30th , the depressions became noticeably less intense . |
| 7 | Although the Royal Ballet has acquired a certain Russian expansiveness for this production , Kirov-trained Asylnuratova simply recasts the ballet with the fierce lucidity of her movement . |
| 8 | Rarely good Indi just dairn the row . |
| 9 | The crafty Edison also held the patent on the light bulb . |
| 10 | The history of cotton-growing in post-war Texas vividly illustrates the value of integrated pest management . |
| 11 | As for the artistic effects of invasion and concentration camps , that can only prompt the awkward question whether the ensuing creativity of occupied Europe ever justified the price that was enforced and paid . |
| 12 | The rapid rise of copper mining in eighteenth-century Cornwall certainly expanded the population of the western parishes , but at the expense of the non-mining parishes in the eastern parts of the same county . |
| 13 | It was an ingenious idea ; but the war with revolutionary France soon destroyed the fiction that there could be two Parliaments with but a single executive . |
| 14 | Sometimes it is made plain that the Israelites were not directly affected by these disasters , but we have to say that this particular Egypt hardly sounds the sort of place to romanticize about ! |
| 15 | Bologna 's own position among the great cities of northern Italy also affected the study of the law . |
| 16 | Northern Europe certainly leads the world in confronting the intractable problem of recycling used computers . |
| 17 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 18 | As well as the loss of two doors , the new ZXs also drop the sideglass behind the C-pillar , gain fillets in the waistline each side of a thickened B-pillar , have door handles turned through 90degs , and are fitted with new rear bumpers , fatter C-pillars and rounded rear wheelarches . |
| 19 | Despite the inconvenience of counting large numbers the twenty-four-hour system persisted for centuries in Italy , but most other countries of western Europe soon adopted the system in which the hours were counted in two sets of twelve from midnight and from noon , respectively . |
| 20 | The chronological extrapolation to Western Europe then required the postulation of models about the rate of diffusion of ideas . |
| 21 | The railways in Russian Asia also had the power to make and break cities . |
| 22 | Gift exchange between fellow Goigama ordinarily took the form of cooked food . |
| 23 | New Yorkers confidently expect the inquiry to turn up nothing . |
| 24 | The Goanese from the Portuguese territory in western India traditionally dominated the catering trades . |
| 25 | Or should I say : ‘ Bubbly , vivacious Marcel flirtatiously ignored the beam in his own eye while protesting about the beam in someone else 's ’ ? |
| 26 | But 50-year-old Derek yesterday defended the bonus bonanza which probably makes him Britain 's best-paid council worker . |
| 27 | But lovely Leslie soon lifted the lid on her co-star 's antics for the camera — and made it clear she was there in more than an ad-visor-y capacity . |