Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 2 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 3 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 4 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 5 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 6 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 7 | Meredith soon forgot everything but the endlessly fascinating unfolding scene . |
| 8 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 9 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 10 | Mr Gorbachev still lacks them in the two areas that matter most . |
| 11 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 12 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 13 | Glenshee has four cannons and Aonach Mor now has one on a one-year trial basis . |
| 14 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 15 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 16 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 17 | When Franz arrived with it Karen deftly plucked it from the sideplate and held up a hand to silence Whitlock 's protest . |
| 18 | TORQUAY , PAIGNTON AND Brixham together promote themselves as the ‘ English Riviera ’ : they offer 22 miles of coastline with 18 beaches . |
| 19 | Kim soon found herself in a tiny tenement flat . |
| 20 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 21 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 22 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 23 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 24 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 25 | Ruth now put him at no more than five-and-twenty . |
| 26 | Meredith 's mouth was open beneath her mask as Lucenzo imperiously led her to a favoured seat , followed by a posse of attentive waiters . |
| 27 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 28 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 29 | Nor had Nigel yet heard anything about the agony aunts ' replies . |
| 30 | If IBM actually endorses it for the Presentation Manager it will become a second standard ! |