Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 2 | When that aircraft took off without him , Thomas switched to a Hampden of No 144 Squadron . |
| 3 | This is not wanted to there has to be a circuit arrangement which does not respond to a short pulse from the batting l.e.d. but acts only if this l.e.d. remains on for a longer period , that is , when the batsman has correctly intercepted the ball . |
| 4 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 5 | It is similar in type to the Simmental , though more elegantly built and the coat colour bright red rather than yellowish tan , and it shares the same origins in the old Bernese brought in by Mennonites during the eighteenth century ( see Alpine section ) . |
| 6 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 7 | Our ‘ ad hoc ’ group has had two meetings so far , some folk crawling out of hospital to attend ( ! ) . |
| 8 | He enjoyed not being known as Inspector Rose , he enjoyed the sausages from Spratling 's Colonial Butchers , he enjoyed kedgeree , and most of all he enjoyed the fresh fish brought in by the landlady 's schoolboy son . |
| 9 | The interesting thing is that different people come up with very different ideas . |
| 10 | Are the editorial staff sitting around at empty desks saying ‘ Tut ! |
| 11 | Average-sized people use up about one calorie a minute while at rest , a little bit less if you 're bigger , ’ says Professor Durnin . |
| 12 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 13 | As she opened the gate , some people came out of the front door — an elderly couple with Susan behind them . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , some people go off to El Vino 's or the Falstaff . |
| 15 | and he 's expecting some people to come round for his Legos . |
| 16 | And some people do up to two a week . |
| 17 | Alright now I just wonder if it might be worthwhile just some people going back to the classroom now or some stay or ? |
| 18 | It is time some people got out of it . ’ |
| 19 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 20 | Some people travelled out of the city to outlying towns and villages in search of provisions , plundering the general stores of Kilsyth and Kilmaurs , Bargeddie , Stepps , Drymen and wherever available transport would take them . |
| 21 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 22 | Social service provision for old people grew out of the Poor Law , and welfare departments , with the 1948 National Assistance Act ( Part iii ) laying a responsibility on local authorities to provide residential care for certain categories of old people . |
| 23 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |
| 24 | According to Jose Herrero , president of the environmental group , Fundacion Cuero y Salado : " When the Honduran people found out about this , there was an outrage never seen before in this country , not even when the contras and US bases were here " . |
| 25 | Twenty-one people came back from abroad with malaria . |
| 26 | British Gas Eastern spokesman Richard Dymond said of the move : ‘ It will not be 280 people going out of the gates . |
| 27 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 28 | A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options . |
| 29 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |
| 30 | A few people come up to C and congratulate him on the gig , but as he watches the dancefloor ( the three Clockwork Orange clones are getting down ) , he looks vaguely perplexed . |