Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A bare and totally neglected Sheffield Victoria as seen in 1980 before the demolition crews moved in. 76003 clatters through with the Deepcar trip working from Tinsley . |
2 | Those hideously honed oarsmen all conk out in middle age , footballers develop hinge-creaking arthritis . |
3 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
4 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
5 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
6 | This allows Figure 2.1 to rise up to a satisfying and unifying point , and has implications for the role of philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum which will be explored in the final chapter . |
7 | He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech . |
8 | Aeroflot Flight 366 lifted off from Pulkovo 's runway on schedule . |
9 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 gave back to the Secretary of State for the Environment the power to make determinations excluding certain elderly persons ' dwellings from the Right to Buy . |
10 | Instead of finding students impossible to put up with , he appears to enjoy their company and they in turn appreciate him . |
11 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
12 | Losses for the year ended August 31 netted out to $9.5m Canadian versus $19.9m Canadian the year before . |
13 | The eldest brother , Edward , left School arid went on to Brasenose College , Oxford , and became in time both an eminent physician and Professor of Music at Gresham College . |
14 | You then follow Hunter 's Path , swinging uphill above the gorge , then crossing Piddledown Common to head back to the village . |
15 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |