Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | Sir Colin flies back to England later this week to try to sort out the storm over the Pakistanis . |
| 3 | The answers have still to be provided , but six months on Mota and her coach/boyfriend Joś Pedrosa sit happily in their holiday home just outside Oporto and chuckle at the thought that her racing career is in crisis . |
| 4 | No do n't play trampolines sit down please now ! |
| 5 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 6 | The wording is very clear and in view of the dicta in the Vestey decision and the major shift in the approach to be adopted to that section — restricting the same to the settlor and his spouse and taking into account the provisions of TA 1988 , s740 — it is felt that the Revenue will have to concede this point unless they change the law ( in which case one would have to watch very carefully what was said in Parliament to see how the change is to have effect ! ) . |
| 7 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 8 | Pauline does all the cooking using only top quality produce . |
| 9 | Devlin got up and they walked out to the terrace . |
| 10 | Father Devlin got in alongside him . |
| 11 | As Schellenberg and Devlin got out , a sergeant emerged from the hut with the radio mast , and hurried towards them . |
| 12 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 13 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 14 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 15 | Certain specialists such as female dieticians and nutritional experts may be employed in the health sector but in general positions in the contract catering field remain exclusively male . |
| 16 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 17 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 18 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 19 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 20 | Activities drawing together staff and governors from several schools reduce the tendency for cut throat competition and encourages collaboration in joint policies and alliances to bring pressure on resource providers for a better service . |
| 21 | She could hear parts of the conversation between the two lost souls , and when Tess went back upstairs , Mrs Brooks crept quietly up to listen outside the bedroom door . |
| 22 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 23 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 24 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 25 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 26 | Impromptu discussion groups formed whenever a man sat outside his house . |
| 27 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 28 | Bones and Whizzo stayed where they were , too tired to move , but the spotty mare got up . |
| 29 | They were also trying too hard , Maria realised quite soon , and she thought Luke was equally aware of it . |
| 30 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |