Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is something about the entire layout of Olympia 2 that reminds me of Milton Keynes : all these signposts leading nowhere . ’ |
| 2 | And she 's giving it , do you want a chocolate bar ? it 's poison I break it in half and give it to Geraldine first . |
| 3 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 4 | Scott reached slowly inside his jacket then pulled the Beretta free and handed it to Hitch , who gripped the automatic in his fist and checked that the magazine was full , slipping it from the butt . |
| 5 | He pulled the pistol free and shoved it against Hitch 's cheek . |
| 6 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 7 | He wanted to be different and run it in Germany ! |
| 8 | We submitted a manuscript in August 1991 and revised it in October in the light of minor criticisms by the referee(s) , whose report was highly supportive . |
| 9 | I licked and rolled , then lit the joint and handed it to Carol . |
| 10 | ‘ Take her away from Woodborough Junior and send her to St Saviour 's . ’ |
| 11 | ( He cuts approximately half from each and gives them to Mona . ) |
| 12 | I shall take two examples of that and apply them to London . |
| 13 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 14 | He got up , filled one of these and thrust it into Fitzormonde 's hand . |
| 15 | Having been approached by Adam Boreel , who with John Dury and Samuel Hartlib [ qq.v. ] in England hoped to persuade a learned Jew to translate the Mishnah ( the Hebraic core of the Talmud ) into Latin , Isaac Abendana arrived in Oxford on 3 June 1662 and presented himself to Edward Pococke [ q.v. ] and other prominent Hebraists there . |
| 16 | It was not ideal , it was not what he had anticipated , far from it , but it was better than abandoning it to Adam . |
| 17 | Dallaway was running 4th but lost it to Goetschy by a third of a second . |
| 18 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 19 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 20 | However , an American party acquired the tape in the late '70s and licensed it to Sony last summer . |
| 21 | In an attempt to defuse the protests Roh dismissed his Minister for Home Affairs , Ahn Eung Mo , on April 27 and replaced him with Lee Sang Yeon . |
| 22 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 23 | Australia lost the Ashes in 1953 , New Zealand won one and lost one against Australia in 1974 , Australia won two of the three 1908 matches against a fully aitched England , and even West Indies lost one of the three Tests they played in 1966 with their four Hs . |
| 24 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 25 | Murray 's cross from the right in the 67th minute was precise and evaded everyone except McCoist , whose header was turned towards Dykstra 's right-hand post and was as finely judged as the ball that set up the chance . |
| 26 | So it 's my great pleasure to declare congress open and to welcome everybody to Portsmouth . |
| 27 | My father may leave everything to me , but I frankly would n't know what to do with it other than give it to Jamie . ’ |
| 28 | Nothing had ever felt quite so right as finding herself in Nevil 's arms and being kissed by him . |