Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy crept slowly up the walls before the house had even noticed she was there . |
| 2 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 3 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 4 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 5 | Now there 's the machine is g there the laminated copper er these commutators and it 's on main shaft that goes right through the generator and the turbine . |
| 6 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 7 | Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond . |
| 8 | Situated right on the beach and in the lively ‘ Golden Zone ’ , a wide variety of boutiques , restaurants , bars and discos lie practically at your doorstep ! |
| 9 | Situated right on the lakeside and next to the picturesque harbour in the centre of Menaggio , is the Hotel Bellavista . |
| 10 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 11 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 12 | Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light . |
| 13 | it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ? |
| 14 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 15 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 16 | The balance has been placed mostly in the Philippines and Indonesia . |
| 17 | The first army , consisting mostly of the Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched with all speed to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 18 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 19 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 20 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | These three correspond most to the expectations and hopes previously voiced by bishops and theological faculties . |
| 22 | Has a repeated ‘ kik ’ note , and a ‘ song ’ rendered as ‘ wait , wait ’ uttered slowly on a rising or falling scale . |
| 23 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 24 | Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin . |
| 25 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 26 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 27 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 28 | ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York . |
| 29 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 30 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |