Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat skin dry and moisturise with a body lotion . |
| 2 | Some Allerce trees are up to four thousand years old and a hundred and fifty foot tall and come from a very threatened environment |
| 3 | But as she shook her hair free and turned to the door , she realised that Miguel was already missing . |
| 4 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 5 | I went back into the club proper and headed for the ‘ phone . |
| 6 | When the exercises finished for the day , he relaxed into numbness , his mind free and floating on a gently rocking tide . |
| 7 | Although there has been consultation throughout all stages of the programme 's development , the team in Glasgow , which includes Elaine Wardrope , Ernst & Young 's marketing manager in Scotland , as well as Lockett , has run the programme day-to-day and dealt with the detailed implementation of the programme . |
| 8 | The tradition to which they belong evolved an accommodation of Christian doctrine to a body of teaching inherited from Greek philosophy about a kind of knowledge — noesis — which is neither intellectual nor sensual , but in essence experiential and manifested in the human soul . |
| 9 | These characters fall into two broad categories , the radial shields are sometimes bar-like and long , often covered over by the disk covering which is usually small thin scales or occasionally stouter scales , or a disk covered by distinct plates with the radial shield distinct and integrated with the other plates . |
| 10 | ( He ceased to be a member of the Institute on 3 September 1992 for failing to pay the Disciplinary Committee fine and costs under the terms of Bye-law 41 . ) |
| 11 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 12 | For the moment part-time and funded by the University , it is hoped that a private benefactor will be able to endow the chair for a full-time professor . |
| 13 | Each fat little grub is a creamy colour with a brown ‘ head ’ and , when nearly mature , is about a centimetre long and curled in a ‘ C ’ -shape . |
| 14 | She stripped her body naked and got under the covers . |
| 15 | Well , it was heigh-ho for the nearest cookshop and , if I remember correctly , a quail pie , the crust golden and crisp , the meat fresh and smothered in a rich sauce , and a jug of new Bordeaux . |
| 16 | As I expected , the jeeps were now arriving with the Commando dead and wounded from the areas around the village . |
| 17 | The taxi swerved out of the Champs Elysées , down the Avenue George-V and came to a sudden halt on the corner . |
| 18 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 19 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 20 | On 28th August 1990 the group acquired Model Manufacturing Ltd and accounted for the acquisition by the merger method of accounting . |
| 21 | A mock battle ensued — at least , she hoped it was mock — then the pair went racing soundlessly off to push the unlatched communicating door ajar and disappear into the next room . |
| 22 | Then my father must have answered the buzzer in the house , because Diggs stooped slightly and talked into the grille beside the button , and then pushed the gate open and walked over the bridge , on to the island and down the path towards the house . |
| 23 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 24 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 25 | Barnett threw the door open and strode into the street . |
| 26 | Tammy helped Michael stagger naked and bleeding to a road where a passer-by stopped to summon help . |
| 27 | Is participation voluntary and welcomed by the clients , or is it demanded of them by the action system , the change agent or even by some extraneous system , as in some parent-teacher associations ? |
| 28 | We sped from the car park undetected and screeched to a halt outside the flower shop , as instructed . |
| 29 | I would have got the answer wrong and plumped for the gin riots . |
| 30 | ‘ Apparently you keep the path clear and look after the little hut ; does your father come here much ? ’ |