Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of these fish are persistent in this action , in my experience many grow out of it as they mature . |
| 2 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 3 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 4 | My Series III jumps out of first gear on over-run . |
| 5 | Nutty stood frowning , not able to complain , her insides all knotted up at the thought of jumping in . |
| 6 | ‘ Her hair all frizzed out like a black halo and ever so sweet . |
| 7 | With its operations obliged to shut down on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays , the carrier losses more than 60 flying days a year . |
| 8 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 9 | Then get the whole lot into their coats ready to march off to school , which was only round the corner . |
| 10 | The debt which George I took over in 1714 was of two main kinds : short-term unfunded and long-term funded . |
| 11 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 12 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 13 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 15 | He liked to refer to his ‘ abrasive ’ personality and Jane noticed that his colleagues all gave in to him . |
| 16 | I could see his bright ginger head bobbing about four rows in front , and then his class all went off to the baths , and by the time he was back I was in triple needlework . |
| 17 | To our delight these turned out to be white-billed divers , another species which breeds farther east along the Siberian coast . |
| 18 | Follow our advice , and get your locks ready to face up to the rigours and trials of sun , sea water and chlorine |