Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Modern scholars have found proof that from here they continued to withdraw north-eastwards , groups of them eventually making their way to the vicinity of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , the region which now constitutes the border between Syria and Iraq . |
| 32 | Hurray , oh , er , no poo I do n't believe it , hurray , done loads of them today have n't you ? |
| 33 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 34 | The Basque Coast starts off flat , at the top end , with sand and pine trees , then acquires first , shapely beaches prized by athletic visitors for their peculiarly surf able Atlantic waves , and next , low but spectacular rocks and promontories , which are at their best along the curious Corniche Basque , to end in the handsome bay of Hendaye-Plage . |
| 35 | In early 1958 he received a stream of well-placed visitors during his fortnightly trips to the capital . |
| 36 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 37 | The limitations of our normally functioning sensory apparatus enable us to experience a minute fragment of actual ‘ reality ’ . |
| 38 | ‘ Those visitors of hers always make such a lot of noise ! ’ could mean that the old gentleman wants to take his nap ; but it could also mean he feels left out and would welcome something to do . |
| 39 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 40 | The Tomb of the Scipios , the ruins of which still survive by the Via Appia south of Rome , offers ample evidence of the early and long-lasting adoption of Greek values by this noble Roman family . |
| 41 | You can choose from shoals of them lazily circling in tanks near your table ; some restaurants even let you catch your own meal from a pond out the back of the premises ( ’ NO FISHING LICENSE REQUIRED ! ! ! ! ’ ) . |
| 42 | I will remove my veils one by one , as I demolish , in turn , the proponents of these cardinal precepts of what today passes for Socialism in the People 's Party . ’ |
| 43 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 44 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 45 | I can therefore gladly admit that falsificationists like myself much prefer an attempt to solve an interesting problem by a bold conjecture , even ( and especially ) if it soon turns out to be false , to any recital of a sequence of irrelevant truisms . |
| 46 | Holmes was addressing those who traced their roots back to the Puritans : ‘ We must not forget that our fathers were exiles from their dearly loved native land , driven by causes which no longer exist . |
| 47 | After firing some 80 rounds from his legally owned 7.62mm SKS Chinese semi-automatic rifle , Frankum shot himself dead . |
| 48 | The Church also recognises the wake as a legitimate bereavement process , but elements within it now believe that much of the burial process is being undermined by new social and commercial pressures . |
| 49 | In the desert , as his wartime despatches show , he was entranced by the conviction that he was controlling the Arabs without their even realizing it ; in his self-imposed obscurity after the war he busied himself secretly , though not too secretly , with pulling strings . |
| 50 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 51 | Of all the circumstances which he had envisaged — of all her possible responses to his clearly demonstrated willingness to admire her — that with which he was now faced was the most confusing , the most difficult to comprehend . |
| 52 | Once a Squig has been provoked from its lair the Night Goblins throw nets over it then bash it senseless with large clubs so it can be safely dragged away . |
| 53 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 54 | The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks . |
| 55 | The dull coloured brickwork merged into the undergrowth of trees , weeds and plants untamed and was hardly noticed by most passes by who probably dismissed it as one of Lincolnshire 's useless ruins , which would either fall down or have to be pulled down eventually . |
| 56 | The most important expectations surrounding social roles are not just statements about what actually happens — about what a person will do , out of habit and so on — but are norms outlining things which a person occupying his or her status is obliged to do . |
| 57 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 58 | Some of the less trampled beaches have an interesting flora , the seeds of which now provide a food supply for some of the largest wintering finch flocks still to be found in the county . |
| 59 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 60 | There was tenderness , there was compassion , there was kindness , there was love , though obscured at times by the harder angles of his constantly changing Cancerian character . |