Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 2 | He claws and shreds endlessly at his scabby skin on one long continuous cyclical motion . |
| 3 | And nobody knows what may happen to Soviet players , torn between their new work opportunities abroad and the emotional pull of their increasingly independent-minded republics . |
| 4 | If the universe was created with bricks and mortar and free-will , then someone somewhere is bound to drop a free-falling brick on someone else 's toe . |
| 5 | But modern crocodiles possess the imperfect four-chambered heart in which freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs is separated from the used blood returning from the body . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 7 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 8 | I sold that stick of mine long ago . |
| 9 | They apply for instance to a third such element , namely the military , to which may , for present purposes , be added the para-military , security and police forces of the state , and which together form that branch of it mainly concerned with the ‘ management of violence ’ . |
| 10 | As he whispered , Donald 's resonant , trained voice repeated each sentence after him so that all could hear , from the Macleans of Morvern and Coll and the seven other members of the Clan Council away past the tacksmen and subtenants to the farthest cottar on the damp sand . |
| 11 | But erm , course , we er you did n't er think about that part of it then like , you know . |
| 12 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
| 13 | Nor was the thought that he alone might hold the key to the mystery the sole component in his strangely elated state . |
| 14 | Given the low base from which much UK industry starts , this implies substantial job generation for technical experts who can develop competence in selling and marketing . |
| 15 | He did not acknowledge Conroy , but hurried on down with that glazed look of someone already encased in their next entrance . |
| 16 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I paid far too much for it the first time , so I 've put a really low reserve on it now . |
| 18 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 19 | ‘ As you say , the door was locked , no one else was in the room and the fire was meant to kill swiftly , expertly , and with little damage to anyone else . |
| 20 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 21 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 22 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 23 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember , he was playing for Great Britain under-21s four years ago and has all that experience behind him even though he is still a baby in playing terms . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There 's little fear of you ever being plump , Seb Quilter , you 're always far too busy . |
| 26 | No , so it will be possible talk to them then ? |
| 27 | Less evident , however , is extensive consciousness of its essentially political nature , involving conflict over control of scarce resources between North and South , that is between affluent and less developed regions of the world . |
| 28 | Auditory consciousness with its markedly linear character dependent upon the sequencing of events in time is a powerful vehicle for emotion , perhaps especially because the human voice is experienced in this mode , but it lacks the map-like quality of the inner visual panorama . |
| 29 | It was a strange action by someone totally convinced he was in the right . |
| 30 | She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister . |