Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ It is clear that our shareholders agree that the Airtours offers grossly undervalue Owners Abroad . |
| 2 | When they came up the grassy track that led to the headland , out of the wood that clothed the side of the valley where the village was , the girl was delighted and her mother relieved that she liked it . |
| 3 | Young babies can sometimes look so uncomfortable when their heads loll and wobble about as they sit in their car seat or carrier . |
| 4 | Fresh blood immediately began to trickle down his leg , but he was relieved when his examination revealed that the bullet had drilled cleanly through the big muscle of his inner thigh . |
| 5 | She had soaked the leather to bend and shape it into the form of a small shoe , but her hands were sore and her back ached and she wondered briefly if there might be an easier way of making a living than the trade her father had chosen for her . |
| 6 | He was very weak and his body trembled and broke into sweats whenever he tried to sleep . |
| 7 | We 're near the summit of the hill , deep in the bushes under the thin cover of trees ; the smell is very strong and my knees feel like the bones are gone . |
| 8 | He was conscious that his words creaked and grated like machinery in the wrong hands , and that his smiling glance upwards at the bunch of mistletoe was more of a leer , a leer that stayed , unnaturally fixed by confusion and rage , as he observed Clare 's hesitation . |
| 9 | It is the responsibility of managers to make sure that their employees know and understand these procedures . |
| 10 | We are sure that your readers know that the war against Croatia has intensified to catastrophic proportions . |
| 11 | It was like a little explosion because it was n't just a question of telling one other person ; I had to tell my parents and I had to tell all my schoolfriends and make sure that my world existed and to a great extent it did . |
| 12 | He could not keep still and his eyes reddened as though at any moment he might burst into tears . |
| 13 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 14 | Seemingly she had been living rough since her owner died and knew a good home when she found one . |
| 15 | PRESIDENT Bush last night pledged that US military forces ‘ will remain in Europe as long as our friends want and need us ’ , no matter how great the changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | " I will love Topaz as long as my life lasts and , if I ca n't have her , I wo n't marry at all . |
| 17 | What remains from classical elite theory is the theme of the powerlessness of the masses and the rational unifying capacities of the minority groups , but modern elite theorists , perhaps surprisingly , are more concerned than their precursors to argue that the elites function not only in their own interest but also in the interests of society as a whole — an inevitable concomitant of the functional elitism now prevalent . |
| 18 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 19 | His heart felt heavy and his legs wobbled when he saw the Bookman still sitting inside , looking very depressed . |
| 20 | Old Donald looked at her , shocked and her son straightened as though lashed and flung out of the house . |
| 21 | He was pale and his voice trembled as though he was at breaking point . |
| 22 | Emily noticed that he was drinking excessive amounts of brandy , his cheeks became red and his eyes glazed and when the meal was over , he rose from his chair unsteadily . |
| 23 | I fought it open and my feet crunched as I went through . |
| 24 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 25 | Amid criticism that the government 's reactions to the troubles had been slow and their position confused and biased , Deputy Prime Minister Gelu Voican-Voiculescu , who was leading compromise talks between the HDUR and the UVR on March 22 , assured crowds in Tirgu Mures that the government 's commission of inquiry would be objective but would seek the " resolute " punishment of those found guilty of instigating the unrest . |
| 26 | Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ? |
| 27 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 28 | Corbett was pleased to see Ranulf , now bored with the simple delights of the countryside and just as eager as his master to leave and have done with it . |
| 29 | He turned eyes hard with disgust on Dana , and Claudia was n't at all surprised when her sister mumbled that Garry was waiting for her in a café in the main street . |