Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 2 | But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’ |
| 3 | It is pointless.and harmful to hark back to how things used to be , although the conflict of loyalties may be hard to handle . |
| 4 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 5 | If they do n't , one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering . |
| 6 | You then follow Hunter 's Path , swinging uphill above the gorge , then crossing Piddledown Common to head back to the village . |
| 7 | During the 12 months prospective follow up of the 30 patients completing four weeks treatment , one patient ( prednisolone treated ) was lost to follow up at week 16 . |
| 8 | They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway . |
| 9 | I was invigorated and felt seven feet tall going out of the church . |
| 10 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 11 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 12 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 13 | According to some papers , Lazio are annoyed that the England international jetted out of Rome on Sunday to visit EuroDisney with his girlfriend — particularly as he was judged not fit enough to play against Torino because of 'flu . |
| 14 | One dozy railman overslept , leaving more than 100 early-morning commuters unable to get out of Birmingham 's Five Ways station . |
| 15 | But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night , so I kept my window open to look out for them . |
| 16 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 17 | She checks daily that her changing bag is filled with essential and spare clothes and leaves it permanently packed in the hall ready to pick up at a moment 's notice so she 's never caught unprepared . |
| 18 | For any given cut into the cliff by the sea ( AB on Fig. 8.6 ) the amount of debris liable to collapse on to the beach will be proportional to the height of the cliff . |
| 19 | Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ? |
| 20 | Other acts quick to cash in on the latest sensation showed equally becoming maidens shedding their clothes prior to bathing , being examined by a doctor , or sun bathing . |
| 21 | That was bad for newspapers and bad for the Council : but , worst of all , it meant that there was no independent body able to speak up for press freedoms under threat . |
| 22 | That was bad for newspapers and bad for the Council : but , worst of all , it meant that there was no independent body able to speak up for press freedoms under threat . |
| 23 | Most trips involve a certain amount of walking and most people can walk , with 97 per cent of the population able to go out on foot . |
| 24 | But he said that before I said why was Michelle able to come in between you and Karen . |
| 25 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 26 | But players are also getting used to cutaway acoustics with the whole fingerboard available to play around with , so the Bluebird is really a way of bringing all these factors together in one instrument . ’ |
| 27 | And Mr Slipshod slithered back into the Town Hall . |
| 28 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 29 | It 's getting a bit late to clear up with the sun . |
| 30 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |