Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 , |
| 3 | Thus his marriage certificate became also his death warrant |
| 4 | If your capital or income goes up you may be required to contribute a greater share of the costs of your care . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Bill Saltman 's head appears round the door , with fingers of wet hair hanging over his leathery brown forehead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She pressed her forehead against the glass of the window , a flag of thick dark-brown hair hanging down her back . |
| 10 | She looked tall in her long white nightdress , her long dark hair hanging down her back to her waist . |
| 11 | 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 … . |
| 12 | I think he 's going to the dentist or something , and he 's a bit frightened so he thinks , he thinks of that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As usual , she was wearing faded jeans , a baggy T-shirt , and her long dark hair tumbled down her back . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The bead curtain beside the bar moved , and Miguelito came through , waving both arms above his head , the guitar slung around his neck . |
| 21 | Now it 's important that we come up with some interesting things because , as you know , as the course goes on we 're going to be joined by professionals from the media , in the form of Bob Satchwell later on this afternoon , and other gentlemen from the local radio and so forth tomorrow , and they 're actually going to , as it were , confirm , or not , as the case may be , the sort of things we 've been talking about . |
| 22 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 23 | With her long hair drooping round her face and her large , mournful eyes , she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy . |
| 24 | He 's also a brilliant guitarist , as proved by a solo , Hendrix style , guitar flung round his neck . |
| 25 | He 's also a brilliant guitarist , as proved by a solo , Hendrix style , guitar flung round his neck . |
| 26 | Her hair whipped around her face ; she felt the icy chill filling her . |
| 27 | Most late nineteenth-century feminists saw feminism primarily as a movement for moral reform , which would of necessity bring in its wake desirable political and social change . |
| 28 | So everyone continues to use the Ridgeway in a fairly easy truce — while the men from the ministry make up their minds . |
| 29 | The West builds up its metals mountain |
| 30 | Downstairs in the basement , all they had to look at was the brick wall of the coal-hole with Mrs Parvis 's aluminium meat-safe hanging on it , and a line of smelly bins . |