Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you grow up surrounded by beautiful things , beautiful sounds and beautiful buildings you become a different kind of person . |
| 2 | We wait for the ambulance , window open so they can identify us , doilies neatly heaped on yellowing copies of the local paper , the cat perturbed by my frantic resuscitation efforts . |
| 3 | Of course I did n't say anything , but I must have reacted in some way and it got through to him , because he seemed more relaxed from that point on . |
| 4 | Burton had grown up surrounded by multiple tensions , multiple obligations , multiple loyalties . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the two verbatim reports of what was said slightly disagreed with each other . |
| 6 | She kept bees in Jane 's orchard and would appear regularly swathed in black net with her eleven-year-old son in tow . |
| 7 | Consider how you would interpret the utterance We 'll land here said by one astronaut to another , on earth , as they study a map of the moon . |
| 8 | Capella hangs low , pale , large , moist and trembling almost engulfed between two horn of the wood upon the headland , the frailest beacon of hope , still fluttering from the storm out of which the land is emerging . |
| 9 | He had a bad squint anyway , but now his two eyes seemed completely dissociated from each other and wandered restlessly round different comers of his head , apparently quite out of control and enjoying their surprising liberty . |
| 10 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 11 | The infamous boues de ville ( BOTTOM LEFT ) contains anything from cigarette packets to Lego ( INSET ) but always , mysteriously , ends up dominated by blue plastic |
| 12 | SAVE then wrote to local newspapers all over the country appealing to amateur photographers to take photographs of endangered buildings . |
| 13 | He opened his mouth to make an acid retort , and then remembered that the sura which permitted captives to be enslaved also went to considerable lengths to provide laws for their welfare . |
| 14 | ‘ In the circumstances , although I could have wished he 'd delayed his visit another hour or so , the edge of my temper had become somewhat dulled by recent events . |
| 15 | In all these cases , what needs to be inferred is the relationship between what has become generally conceptualized in grammatical form and what is particular in context . |
| 16 | Set up reinforced by advanced Intelloids who are Posi-sisters ’ . |
| 17 | Think I 've learnt it and just keep making the sa yes cos she 'd crossed out divorced on that passport form |
| 18 | At 31 December 1992 cumulative production from the Ninian field attributable to the interest of the Group on which OPS payments have become due amounted to 84,453,60 barrels [ 1991 82,347,875 barrels ] . |
| 19 | ‘ You are quite sure that Riddle never came to this house ? ’ |
| 20 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |
| 21 | The Taï chimps also featured in several sequences in The Trials of Life ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1990 ) . |
| 22 | Lack of space in which to build laterally resulted in this characteristic Edinburgh townscape of early tower blocks , often with additional lower floors invisible from the street , clinging to the cliffs and reached through narrow wynds , vennels and closes overshadowed by the dark flanks of buildings stained by the smoke of those ‘ Auld Reekie ’ years . |
| 23 | Mr Hannis says the couple he took in stayed in separate rooms . |
| 24 | The Eastern National , in 1929 , took over followed by United Counties who came on the local scene in June 1928 . |
| 25 | Similar differences between relapsing and non-relapsing polyp patients ahve already emerged from previous studies , although other investigators have found no significant differences whatsoever . |
| 26 | Down here they 're Catholics ; bit more relaxed about that sort of thing . ’ |
| 27 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 28 | Wrapped in it , she would be able to sleep again , to dream sweet dreams , to wake up refreshed between clean sheets . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , try to ensure that the flowers do not end up arranged in straight lines , as this can look like a stripe in the design . |
| 30 | Rather , as people 's lives become increasingly disconnected from emotional lives , and from the structures affecting them , they will find increased solace in institutions , individuals and themes associated with apparent , but displaced , notions of kin , blood relations and general or collective experience . |