Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground of the park rippled as if disturbed by colossal , underground moles . |
| 2 | The Prince yawned as if bored . |
| 3 | On its perch , the parakeet drooped as if it , too , had been worked off its feet . |
| 4 | An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe Vigo can tell us where the money came from if Cullam ca n't , ’ said Burden . |
| 6 | The goldfish shuttled to and fro , beneath the flat leaves , and there was an hour longer for them to sit there . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 8 | Jack stood up as the Glory rocked to and fro . |
| 9 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 10 | The stranger peered between and beyond the silent , uneasy company , but he could not glimpse the boy . |
| 11 | The investigation is carried out in private , the Local Commissioner having the power to examine all the internal papers of the department complained against and the power to take written and oral evidence from anyone who in his view can provide relevant information . |
| 12 | The priest nodded as if in understanding . |
| 13 | The horse stood as if posing for a Munning 's portrait ; black against red ; head arched . |
| 14 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 15 | The muscles are absolutely rigid , proof that the grasp occurred at or about the moment of death . |
| 16 | Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold . |
| 17 | In Flanders , services are classified simply in terms of the age of the youngsters looked after or the type of service offered ( for example , observation and assessment ) . |
| 18 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 19 | However , I have always assumed that public nuisance was primarily concerned with the effect of the act complained of as opposed to its inherent lawfulness or unlawfulness . |
| 20 | In the far corner , the cat cowered as if it knew it was in the presence of death . |
| 21 | The boy laughed as if he knew something Gina did not , and his teeth gleamed white in the dark hallway . |
| 22 | The rudder felt as if it were covered with barnacles , and the engine sounded old and tired , but there was no reason for grounding the plane . |
| 23 | There are , of course , moments like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ that make you wish the NHS paid for and hygienically destroyed ‘ Been there — done that — got it out of my system in the studio ’ bouts of maudlin croaking . |
| 24 | It is then possible to identify whether the accident happened during or immediately after take-off , during cruising flight or when landing . |
| 25 | Of course , the coroner drank as if there was no tomorrow and when he had had his fill , leaned back against the pillar of the huge fireplace , belched , and pronounced himself satisfied . |
| 26 | Anyway he went about in railway jobs as the years went by and I was born in , taken with the rest to Leicester , City of Leicester , but my early memories was in Nottingham . |
| 27 | And er the years went by and al all I know is that he said ooh she 's she 's married a London doctor , you see . |
| 28 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 29 | The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard . |
| 30 | One " rule " which the team adhered to until very near the end of the evaluation concerned the number and size of grants made in any year . |