Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 2 | Most towns and villages in the rest of the county had already turned to the association game by the turn of the century , but before 1907 their enthusiasm centred around their local teams . |
| 3 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 4 | Thus his marriage certificate became also his death warrant |
| 5 | We could even observe other clinics to see how they work . ’ |
| 6 | If your capital or income goes up you may be required to contribute a greater share of the costs of your care . |
| 7 | When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been . |
| 8 | As soon as the ladies left their carriages , their beautiful gowns became sodden and muddied , and their elaborate hair styles were undone , their hair hanging over their faces . |
| 9 | Once , when she caught Cissie with her head down , drying herself in the heat from the fire with her hair hanging over her eyes and dangerously close to the flames , her heart had turned somersaults . |
| 10 | Bill Saltman 's head appears round the door , with fingers of wet hair hanging over his leathery brown forehead . |
| 11 | London went mad ; everyone flocked to hear her , to see her , so young , so seemingly innocent yet passionate , with her long brown hair hanging down her back beneath the small round cap , her slight frame clad in a simple white gown which fell straight to the boards . |
| 12 | She pressed her forehead against the glass of the window , a flag of thick dark-brown hair hanging down her back . |
| 13 | She looked tall in her long white nightdress , her long dark hair hanging down her back to her waist . |
| 14 | Incensed , Maria flung up her head , choking on rage , and but for her fear of any physical contact between them , she might have lashed out at him . |
| 15 | The background tells more than the people or the happenings : the water-sprinkler on the lawn ; the hateful birds with their ‘ strident and spiteful noises ’ and ‘ those banal exchanges from tree to tree , mockings and bickerings and sudden solo trillings ’ ; the cook with a napkin fastened round her head as if it were a Stilton cheese … . |
| 16 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 17 | My wig was swinging from the hooks on the charm bracelet , my orange hair tumbled over my face like a pound of grapes in an egg-cup and one shoe-less leg stuck out of a semi-detached dress . |
| 18 | As usual , she was wearing faded jeans , a baggy T-shirt , and her long dark hair tumbled down her back . |
| 19 | The living-room had once been almost elegant : high , with a deep frieze , plaster cornice , and an elaborate ceiling rose , reminders of a time when even prosperous merchants lived over their shops . |
| 20 | Throughout the '80s , when Marinello lived out his decline in quiet pain , Best paraded his drink problem through the press and on one memorable occasion humiliated himself in front of a nationwide audience on Wogan . |
| 21 | Florrie made up her mind : she must buy some material and make a new set of curtains . |
| 22 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 23 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction represents perhaps what Christine Brooke-Rose was aiming at , not in philosophical or even aesthetic terms , but as narratives which combine readability and lively story-telling with intellectual themes . |
| 24 | Thus the decision not to appoint Risk could be seen as an attempt by the Board to carry out its fiduciary duty to the shareholders ( ie to act in their best interests ) . |
| 25 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 26 | Now , would n't necessarily suggesting that the existing settlement would have to sustain all of the addition given only what it 's got at the moment . |
| 27 | The fish and fruit diet sustained them well , though a doctor diagnosed Mr Glennie , who lost 22lb , as being malnourished , and he showed reporters folds of skin hanging off his buttocks . |
| 28 | The bead curtain beside the bar moved , and Miguelito came through , waving both arms above his head , the guitar slung around his neck . |
| 29 | However , central government authorities bring in what they refer to as " casual workers " in such circumstances . |
| 30 | There now has to be more meetings to see how it 's going to work in practice . ’ |