Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lacuna slowly shook her great head . |
| 2 | Germany 's money-market interest rates have fallen again as the Bundesbank slowly eases its monetary policy . |
| 3 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 4 | MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson staunchly backed his temperamental superstar Eric Cantona last night and claimed : ‘ This man can become a giant at Old Trafford . ’ |
| 5 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 6 | on the Children 's tape , although the first sentence inside makes it clear that it 's a leaflet for children/young people . |
| 7 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
| 8 | Leapor 's intellectual attainments are of no importance , and her poetic skills only obstruct her proper work in the kitchen . |
| 9 | The protest floated at the back of her numbed mind : how could she have the heart to deal such a blow only to satisfy her own thirst for scandal ? |
| 10 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 11 | ‘ Apples are good for your heart so give your loved one a Real English Cox on Valentine 's day . |
| 12 | Aged 43 , with two teenage children , Maria only found her perfect profession five years ago . |
| 13 | While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 . |
| 14 | editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows . |
| 15 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 16 | Friends say they have spent hours together discussing their marital problems . |
| 17 | She felt ridiculously deflated , even though his assessment only matched her own . |
| 18 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 19 | Nor do the trophies alone mark their finest achievements . |
| 20 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 21 | On another level , quotation may involve speakers straight-forwardly reporting their own speech in the original code . |
| 22 | By the following month , furthermore , Reagan 's rating had dropped ten points , where it broadly stayed during the next three months while the administration successfully defended its budget-cutting package and won a stunning endorsement of the tax reduction measure . |
| 23 | Under these the craftsmen skilfully handled their special steels . |
| 24 | THE history of science is a sequence of conflicts between incompatible theories in which each side vigorously defends its own theory until conclusive evidence persuades a majority to accept one view . |
| 25 | As a result , the reorganization only reached its final stages in the summer of 1977 . |
| 26 | His alcoholism apparently alienated his former writing partner ; his admirable disinclination to offer any public denial of his homosexuality may have compromised his potential as a solo performer ; and he battled for several years with the throat cancer which finally killed him . |
| 27 | Give that to Robert , that 's for Donna so give them both to Robert but the adventure game 's for Donna . |
| 28 | You say they have guards enough to keep him safe ? |
| 29 | In all possibility the Perks merely infested their own elusive craft , following their urge to burrow into whatever comes along . |
| 30 | Guy tilted her chin up to face him , and lowered his mouth gently to cover her parted lips , and she was quite ridiculously unprepared for the surge of resonating need , swamping her senses . |