Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a diesel-engine car which will out-gun many of its petrol-engine rivals . |
| 2 | After a light lunch we would siesta in our bedroom , and not emerge until sunset . |
| 3 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 4 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 5 | Or there 's another thing you can mum we 're trying to make that . |
| 6 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
| 7 | Thanks to Emma 's years of extreme beneficence , Rachaela had managed to save a little , and now there was some interest which would tide her over , perhaps until the new year . |
| 8 | AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously . |
| 9 | For other instant transformations you could jazz up an all-white kitchen say , by adding red and white tiles and red handles , or by just painting a stripe all along between drawers and cupboard doors . |
| 10 | In such circumstances what could Wilson do but offer help to the 5,000 or more German seamen taken ashore from British , German and other vessels on the outbreak of war who were unemployed , destitute and ultimately destined for internment camps ? |
| 11 | A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police . |
| 12 | His people will share the vision and strive for it too , creating their own personal vision of what is required , a personal vision which will mesh in with that of the Profitboss and the overall company . |
| 13 | Here in sophisticated surroundings you can wine , dine and dance , or simply enjoy a pleasant lunch or good dinner . |
| 14 | Organic Food You Can Trust lists shops , wholesalers and market stalls . |
| 15 | I really could I said to him if you do n't shut your bloody gob I 'll belt you one . |
| 16 | She is a friendly and helpful hostess who will book horse-riding , golf and fishing for her guests . |
| 17 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 18 | So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores . |
| 19 | If they discovered evidence of share dealing ahead of the takeover by individuals using confidential information they would institute more formal inquiries . |
| 20 | In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation . |
| 21 | The most troublesome cases are provided where the problem is identified by pluralists as one of incomplete integration into the central value-system resulting in a state of backwardness in the outlying regions which may t e permanent . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 23 | These investors were not rich entrepreneurs who could aford the loss , the court was told , but ordinary savers who wanted , and were promised , a good return on their savings . |
| 24 | However , applying such a model directly to the topic of attitudes towards the monarchy would neglect the role of implicit factors , especially the implicit justifications which could be called upon should an argumentative attack be mounted or the implicit criticisms which would surface into explicitness under changed historical circumstances . |
| 25 | But if they had twenty five percent it would gentlemen of the Conservative party to say , Listen , you 've got twenty five percent , go on , run the country . |
| 26 | ‘ One day I shall oil and sharpen my shears and make another bird , ’ she said softly . |
| 27 | So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on . |
| 28 | up to one X you should times by two which is twenty nine . |
| 29 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 30 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |