Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night , after they make love , Mark falls asleep and Babur goes into the living room to write a letter to his parents . |
| 2 | Now , the common understanding of this is that , they 're Christians , these are those who are followers of Jesus , they 're the Christians , and Jesus comes and er , ee er , there 's the little , there 's the one who is wandering away , who 's a stray and Jesus goes after them and brings them back into the fold and so on . |
| 3 | A submarine trench has been postulated to accommodate the thick piles of Manx and Skiddaw slates in north-west England , perhaps superimposed on an earlier Cambrian island arc . |
| 4 | The Tibetan Plateau , located between the Himalayan and Karakorum ranges to the south , and the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh ranges to the north , is a roughly triangular area some 1000km from north to south and 1700km from east to west ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 5 | It is now generally accepted that words prefixed by pett or pit ( similar to the Welsh and Cornish peth for ‘ thing ’ or ‘ piece ’ ) are of Pictish origin , as in places such as Pitlochry ( ‘ stony share ’ ) and Pittenweem ( ‘ share of the cave ’ ) . |
| 6 | Seeing this stranger among the gleaners Boaz asks his foreman about Ruth , and she is as we 've mentioned , she , he talks about her diligence , about her respectful ways , about her , her consideration for other and Boaz offers to her , three things , he offers to her guidance he says , do n't go anywhere else , you stay here . |
| 7 | Fasciculus , from the Burgess Shales and adjacent localities , is an early ctenophore , but differs from extant and Devonian ctenophores in the number of comb-rows . |