Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 2 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 3 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 4 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 5 | Fresh-faced and bright-eyed , we five-year-olds trooped off to school : troubled and sophisticated we returned , the stuffing all knocked out of us . |
| 6 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 7 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 8 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 9 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever a man remembers at the last , when he is leaving the body , will be realised by him hereafter ; because that will be what his mind constantly dwelt on during his life . ’ |
| 11 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 12 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 13 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 14 | When the car finally pulled up in St Aldate 's , the young driver opened the rear door and shook Sergeant Lewis awake , failing to notice that the first action of his passenger was to run the forefinger of his left hand slowly along his upper teeth . |
| 15 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 16 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 17 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 18 | Then his eyes finally flicked back to his secretary . |
| 19 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 20 | Despite joint ventures in Europe with Philips and Olivetti , and in Spain , AT&T did not successfully achieve the same status as the existing ‘ foreign legion ’ telecoms equipment suppliers ; Siemens of Germany and Ericsson continued their traditional success as equipment suppliers in many countries , and ITT largely held on to its foreign markets both under its US ownership and when it came under majority French ( Alcatel ) control in 1986 . |
| 21 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 22 | Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) . |
| 23 | Under the scheme , specially converted dustcarts collect household rubbish , with paper , plastics and aluminium already separated out by householders in plastic crates provided by the local authority . |
| 24 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 25 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 26 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 27 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 28 | The M.wt. of proteins N-terminally deleted down to the 73rd , 205th and 356th residue were 69 , 56 and 27kDa , respectively . |
| 29 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 30 | And the advice was on the back of the most comprehensive research ever carried out for a new paper . |