Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | Sir Colin flies back to England later this week to try to sort out the storm over the Pakistanis . |
| 3 | The answers have still to be provided , but six months on Mota and her coach/boyfriend Joś Pedrosa sit happily in their holiday home just outside Oporto and chuckle at the thought that her racing career is in crisis . |
| 4 | Father Devlin got in alongside him . |
| 5 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 6 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 7 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 8 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 9 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 10 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 11 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 12 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 13 | She was aware of the cicadas buzzing in the heat of the day , of the sweet smell of pine trees and jasmine , her own heart thudding dully against her ribcage . |
| 14 | She stared at the fierce pain in his eyes , her heart thudding dully in her chest . |
| 15 | She paused for breath , her heart thudding painfully against her ribs . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes … ! ’ he said deeply , and then his mouth closed over hers , burningly sensual as his hands moved slowly up to tunnel into her thick black hair , and as her mouth opened beneath his the hunger swept them both again , their breathing quickening as the kiss took fire and his mouth was fierce , hot , demanding , his hands moving over her body as she heard his heart thudding violently at his chest , and she knew she was in danger of losing her mind with the sweet , hot rush of excitement . |
| 17 | They went on kissing , falling against the lift wall , Damian 's hard thigh thrust between hers as he lifted her , her heart thudding violently at his chest , moving his hard body against her soft , arching female body while she moaned hoarsely . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't fight me , ’ he said huskily , face flushed and eyes glittering like blue needles as he held on to her easily , his mouth burying in her hair , his heart thudding hard at his strong chest . |
| 19 | Donna sat back in her seat , her heart thudding hard against her ribs . |
| 20 | Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first . |
| 21 | Among the sea anemones sticking limply to the rocks exposed at low tide , there are , almost everywhere in the world , rather different lumps of jelly . |
| 22 | ‘ One coin given away with every four gallons of petrol . |
| 23 | In the end , after allowing those proposals to go forward without us , we were forced to join after the terms had been fixed . |
| 24 | The hare was running and the Atom lived up to her name and blasted clear . |
| 25 | According to the values listed above for the product of the reaction in our example for case 2 should be NiO(s) and not CO(g) . |
| 26 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 27 | SENSIQ MADE PURELY FOR YOU |
| 28 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 29 | Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . |
| 30 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |