Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Advertising should be based on the accurate job description you have already drawn up , so that the right sort of people will recognize themselves . |
| 32 | Now , in the middle of the biggest case she had ever worked on , she had problems of a much larger scale and Kate was aware that her life would never be the same again . |
| 33 | Although judging by the telex you 've already tracked down the plutonium . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ This is the best all-round team I have ever played in . |
| 35 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 36 | Kate , a veteran of several battle zones , added : ‘ This is without doubt the most dangerous place I have ever worked in . ’ |
| 37 | A sound I have often read about , but never knowingly heard , is the scream produced by male badgers . |
| 38 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 39 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 40 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 41 | Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out . |
| 42 | Arsenal fans still talk about former Highbury heroes Michael Thomas and David Rocastle , the main men from the Championship-winning team who have now moved on to Liverpool and Leeds . |
| 43 | The place you 've just written about helps you to feel at ease , to feel nourished , warm , loved . |
| 44 | Hindenburg , who had taken part in the victorious campaigns of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 , was now built up into a father figure : the old general who had again thrown back the invaders of the Fatherland . |
| 45 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 46 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 47 | During this period there has also grown up an international community of people interested in gender in mathematics and/or science and/or technology . |
| 48 | When I got to my room they 'd already brought in my things and Karen , she 's my key worker , she helped me unpack . |
| 49 | After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up . |
| 50 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 51 | ‘ I hope you know how much self-discipline I have just summoned up . |
| 52 | He sent the clerk hurrying into the back room to get a dark grey suit which had just come in and then said : ‘ Going to New York ? |
| 53 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 54 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 55 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 56 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 57 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 58 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 59 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 60 | An innocent who 'd somehow wandered down into the rat run , just asking to get bitten . |