Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 2 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 3 | your lines are either working and making you money or there working and costing you money , and the supervisor 's job is to make sure that whoever 's working these phone 's is getting a result |
| 4 | So you know , I say things like oh I 'm going down to see Zoey now before dinner and like she 'll follow me down or something and I 'll say oh are you going into the saloon or like to try and get her to not come with me , then I feel so guilty I think well poor Marina , you know , she 's here in a foreign country , she has n't got any friends and she 's all by herself and I would n't like it if I was in her position |
| 5 | Then they are stoneground or mechanically milled and sieved . |
| 6 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 7 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 8 | I felt I ought to call out to Malpass or maybe go and see if he was okay . |
| 9 | An old sofa can be covered with a throw-over piece of material , you need not go the expense of re-upholstery or even stretch or loose covers . |
| 10 | We , being their regular suppliers , do not have the option of action that neither helps nor hinders . |
| 11 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 12 | It allowed him to take words that already existed and yet express himself in a completely new way . |
| 13 | It allowed him to take words that already existed and yet express himself in a completely new way . |
| 14 | Mr Brown 's comments referred to a recent Education Board recommendation that both Ardnaveigh and Antrim High School should be closed and a new school opened on the Antrim High School site . |
| 15 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 16 | In an effort to understand more fully the biological processing of these adducts , proteins that specifically recognize and bind to platinated DNA have been studied ( 16-21 ) . |
| 17 | Spinnys examine the job opportunities that actually exist and the benefits they have to offer . |
| 18 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 19 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 20 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 21 | Like a human body , the body of your essay is made up of parts : in this case paragraphs and perhaps numbered or titled sections and subsections . |
| 22 | Do a picture , do , do like a series of pictures , yeah , but it 's concentrating on the face but like the eyes and just try and capture a different personality from different looks of the eyes . |
| 23 | That is to feed my body through the hole left by the sidescreen until my head collides with whoever is in the passenger 's seat and then wriggle and squeeze my legs down either side of the steering wheel . |
| 24 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 25 | After that a bird — the same one or another — fell through the chimney into the grate and then fluttered and banged in terror around the room . |
| 26 | That when you expose great portions of the roof , unsupported , then you increase the possibilities of a roof fall which comes back on through to the supported area of the roof and then injures or kills someone . |
| 27 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 28 | Matt was lying on the couch and then went and then I went over and sat on the couch and then Matt tried sa Matt erm pretended he was up to him and started |
| 29 | I have an idea , however , that he is apt to think out his own operations , try to lay them on without any authorisation from your HQ and then come and offer it to us on a plate . |
| 30 | Refurbished the Old Fire Station Arts Centre to provide a daytime cafe and even bar and live music . |