Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna Ward glanced distractedly out of the window for a second , her mind racing , her hand on her book . |
| 2 | She began typing , and David Fairfax went right out of her mind . |
| 3 | Once through the boulder field , a grassy sward high above picturesque Crummack Dale led steadily up to a broad plateau near Long Scar , from where we had our first view of the distant and brooding Ingleborough rising from a vast array of moor and limestone pavements , shimmering in the summer heat like a huge field of cotton grass . |
| 4 | Mrs Donna Frizzell looked despondently out of her picture window . |
| 5 | GREEN Party ‘ messiah ’ David Icke came right out with it yesterday and declared : ‘ Thank God I 'm a loony . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Pleased to meet you , ’ Bobby Coul held tightly on to her gloved hands , as much to stop himself from falling as anything else . |
| 7 | DAVID ESSEX Going all out for the Cliff Richard Award for persistent youthfulness . |
| 8 | The lane from Bishopstow village came right up to the drive gates and ended there between stone gateposts crowned with lichened pineapples . |
| 9 | The beat I had started in Garston village went right through to Speke . |
| 10 | Dodging a band of spacers in Shenandoah colours braying drunkenly out of a bar and shoving one another about , Tabitha pushed ahead into the crowd that lined the banks of the Grand Canal . |
| 11 | Mr Malik walked swiftly over to them and aimed a shrewd blow at their ears . |
| 12 | On a clear day it is possible to see both the English and Bristol Channels ; the distant Quantocks and Mendips frame the Somerset Levels , with Glastonbury Tor rising mysteriously out of the mists . |
| 13 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 14 | Mr Rafsanjani weaves uncomfortably in between . |
| 15 | ‘ Leytonstone Boy ’ : Graham Gooch pictured early on in his now illustrious career . |
| 16 | McCallen also rides in the 600cc race where Joey Dunlop appears again along with King and Rea . |
| 17 | Athelstan ground his teeth and glared at the coroner but Sir John smiled sweetly back as if innocent of any devious stratagem . |
| 18 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 19 | Sir Ian Trethowan slid comfortably out of the director-generalship of the BBC to become chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board because the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , happened to know he was interested in racing . |
| 20 | He did n't want Mrs Wright driving right up to his house . |
| 21 | A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city . |
| 22 | On the top floor of 32 , Mrs Mackintosh stared nervously out at the dark street . |
| 23 | Discarded by the press , the hapless Mrs Ullman walked slowly back to the Tube station , still reeling from her brief moment of TV fame . |
| 24 | Despite the Ernest Saunders scandal , the Earl of Iveagh and the Guinness family did well out of him . |
| 25 | She saw a white conservatory full of plants , soft light filling it , a few flowers making knots of dazzling colour ; and at the door , casting a spidery shadow , a long , meagre but erect man , all angles , like a lesser Don Quixote put together out of scrap iron . |
| 26 | Curiously enough the character generally labelled in this way was not the discovery of Conan Doyle ; was not John Watson M.D. tagging faithfully along behind Sherlock Holmes . |
| 27 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 28 | Double Eastern Creek crasher Juan Garriga walks angrily back to the pits . |
| 29 | The Gothic and Baroque buildings in the centre of town seemed somehow to reflect the gloom with their peeling plaster and crumbling façades : a once-proud city of towers and spires , balconies , alleys and doorways , with the university — a jumbled collection of yellow buildings and small courtyards — standing on a rock above the River Morava gazing severely down on a gold-domed Russian Orthodox church , now boarded up , its green roof tiles slipped and broken . |
| 30 | As they passed through the dancers , Connon noticed-Pascoe moving slowly around with an attractive young girl . |