Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 2 | We 've got one corner of the garden out the front and if the wind 's in the right direction it neatly puts them all together . |
| 3 | It is sometimes interesting to see two papers running a political story nobody else has got . |
| 4 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 5 | Indeed , in some local areas , hospital provision was so low that ‘ it is doubtful whether some … can be considered to be offering a comprehensive service , ’ and for most people , most of the time , it is provision at the local rather than the regional level which really matters . |
| 6 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 7 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 8 | Abandoned to drink from her cup of sorrow , the asylum superintendents would have marked the baby as ‘ an accidental addition which wholly unbalances the tottering mind ’ . |
| 9 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 10 | Ultimately when time reduces our prized telescope to some orphaned lenses adrift in a little heap of metallic oxide we sadly shake our heads over the debris and say ‘ this was a telescope ’ , or , in Pythonesque terms , ‘ this is an ex-telescope ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Worst damn decision I ever made , ’ said John Frome , straightening himself and blinking his eyes . |
| 12 | The kick uses a turning action which momentarily exposes a large target area to the opponent . |
| 13 | At last , faint and far off in the total blackness which now surrounded him , he saw another gleam of light . |
| 14 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 15 | Provoked by abrupt intimacy with a complete stranger who then turned out to be someone she was forced to spend time with , forced to establish a formal business relationship with … ? |
| 16 | The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end . |
| 17 | There is one large broad apical papilla which sometimes lies within the mouth slit . |
| 18 | From then on , ANDES has worked with the campesino , worker , student and shanty-town sectors in the BPR to help create the mass political opposition which now confronts the regime . |
| 19 | Rob 's party , and Richard Stirling 's mention of Elise … and Luke 's terse reply which effectively forbade further talk on the subject . |
| 20 | A police car was stoned by onlookers as it chased a stolen car which later crashed into a lampost . |
| 21 | Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson has commissioned a life of Barbara Cartland from Tim Heald , as part of a three-book deal which also includes a book about the final year before the handover of Hong Kong to China , The Last Governor , and a third ‘ highly confidential ’ project . |
| 22 | They are capable of flight at 56 days — a strange figure which nonetheless seems to be remarkably constant . |
| 23 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 24 | Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis . |
| 25 | In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole . |
| 26 | Irrespective of their magnitude , whether they are big or small , in each case think about the emotional weight you once gave and still give to them . |
| 27 | To achieve anything like a professional result you still need the services of a designer to create the master pages but this is a once-off requirement for each publication . |
| 28 | So much for a blatant attack , but what about the friendly stranger who suddenly comes too close for comfort in the car park outside the local pub ? |
| 29 | short sticky tape you never know , the old . . |
| 30 | Charles flicked back the lock of straight brown hair which habitually fell into his eyes , and shrugged with a touch of irritation . |