Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Way I read it , Rico and the Battler got excited and started their own war . |
| 2 | Netwise says its US operations remain open and describes its financial health as ‘ fairly stable . ’ |
| 3 | Netwise says its US operations remain open and describes its financial health as ‘ fairly stable . ’ |
| 4 | This is flatly denied in the influential though anonymous ‘ Cornell paper ’ issued from the university in January 1966 which accepts that Sukarno and the PKI became involved but claims they did not initiate the plot . |
| 5 | At first it was included with other Shorthorns in the Coates herdbook from its inception in 1822 , but in 1896 the Lincoln became separate and established its own Lincoln Red herdbook . |
| 6 | A low-flying heron did its best to evoke atmosphere ; ‘ The old heron from the lonely lake/ starts slow and flaps his melancholy wings . ’ |
| 7 | David produced one and handed it to her . |
| 8 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 9 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 10 | I let my mouth fall open and set my glass down heavily on the table , allowing my head to fall back against the chair and my eyes to close , in the imitation of unconsciousness . |
| 11 | In any learning situation the teacher-pupil relationship can be a vulnerable and intense one , with some of the dependence of the mother-child interaction until the pupil is mature enough in that particular field of study to stand alone and make his or her own judgements . |
| 12 | Is the intention to palletize that or to leave it as it is . |
| 13 | A teenage couple whose baby was taken to hospital with bruises and bleeding eyes seemed unconcerned when told he might die , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 14 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 15 | Her horse came close and watched her . |
| 16 | Labour seemed happiest when proclaiming its undying support for the National Health Service and the state education system of the post-Beveridge era . |
| 17 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 18 | After deliberating for a little while , the priest selected one and carried it towards the fire . |
| 19 | Epitot looked puzzled and removed it again . |
| 20 | The shepherd grew pale and left us at once , and tried to rid his stomach of the dread stuff , and thereafter went home to his bed , expecting to die . |
| 21 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 22 | But the rapid-strike force sat tight and did nothing . |
| 23 | And of course it was not until the eyes and nose began to discharge that the boy became worried and brought him to see me . |
| 24 | " He turned and began to go away , but the captain of the guard became frightened and called him back . |
| 25 | The child hates this and resists it fiercely . |
| 26 | Although a well-designed sports shoe should absorb the impact on the 28 bones in each foot , claims about miracle technology , making your feet feel fantastic while helping you to attain Olympic standards , should be taken with a pinch of salt . |
| 27 | It may be that the amp sounds okay but do they really need an LED for goodness sake ? |
| 28 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 29 | On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead . |
| 30 | She could feel Maggie 's distress ; Maggie needed more than to have her care about the house . |