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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She stared at the fierce pain in his eyes , her heart thudding dully in her chest . |
| 8 | She paused for breath , her heart thudding painfully against her ribs . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Donna sat back in her seat , her heart thudding hard against her ribs . |
| 13 | Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ One coin given away with every four gallons of petrol . |
| 16 | In the end , after allowing those proposals to go forward without us , we were forced to join after the terms had been fixed . |
| 17 | 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) . |
| 18 | SENSIQ MADE PURELY FOR YOU |
| 19 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 20 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 21 | Moscow sets terms for unity debate Following are extracts from an address to members of the European Parliament given yesterday by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 22 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 23 | The contract came to grief and the projects passed briefly through another restoration house , then into the Tallichet storage facility in Chino , California . |
| 24 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 25 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 26 | ‘ Then how come when we pulled her from her suit I found a folder full of Alex Bannen 's notes stashed away inside the sleeve ? ’ |
| 27 | The patient is admitted to one of these units in order to allow the carer the freedom to go away on holiday , as it is well recognized that carers need a proper break at intervals , so you should not feel guilty about taking advantage of the opportunity . |
| 28 | More than half the 12.5 billion kilograms of milk produced annually in the Netherlands today is sold abroad and , of course , Dutch cheeses are renowned as well . |
| 29 | Every Masai thinks constantly about cattle . |
| 30 | To my other side the ridge tumbled away from below my hump . |