Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 2 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 3 | Athelstan stared into the flames , half listening to a wind which had suddenly sprung up , now whining and clattering against the tightly secured shutters . |
| 4 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 5 | Moreover , the Attorney-General 's contentions are inconsistent with the practice which has now continued over a number of years in cases of judicial review . |
| 6 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 7 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 8 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 9 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 10 | In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay . |
| 11 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 12 | Mitsotakis 's sensitivity on the issue of his family 's political involvement was seen to reflect his desire to avoid charges of unethical conduct by his government , the issue which had effectively brought down his ( socialist ) predecessor Andreas Papandreou . |
| 13 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 14 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 15 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 16 | He turned and the girl who had just come in let out a little scream . |
| 17 | I wanted her , at my convenience , to become a nurturing Mother Earth figure who would take care of my when I felt unable to cope , and the little girl who had never grown up was crying out for help and approval . |
| 18 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 20 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 21 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 22 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 23 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 24 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 25 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 26 | Friends from the council he had once served on . |
| 27 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 28 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 29 | Randy and Merlin Sherwood 's beautiful mother adjusted her mascara in the driving mirror and eyed Rupert Campbell-Black who 'd just rolled up alone in a dark green Ferrari to watch his daughter , Tabitha , play in the first final for the under-fourteens . |
| 30 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |