Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , changing external factors meant that many plans became rapidly out of date and so they could never be implemented properly . |
| 2 | They were not all preplanned ; some of the later activities developed naturally out of those that came earlier . |
| 3 | The ducks swam right up to Anabelle . |
| 4 | Then he sat down with a thump , his legs sticking straight out in front of him . |
| 5 | Locks shoot back like informed guards stepping aside out of obedience , not willingness . |
| 6 | Hundreds of eyes gazed dismally out of windows at the rivers gurgling along the gutters , scores of small noses flattened their ends against the dry sides of windowpanes down the other surface of which streamed rivulets of water . |
| 7 | Waves crashed deafeningly on to pebbles beneath . |
| 8 | Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles . |
| 9 | Her eyes drove right back at him . |
| 10 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |
| 11 | The only exotic mysterious dance this glen will witness is one where walkers run wildly about in circles waving their arms in alarm , screaming , ‘ Get them off me ! ’ |
| 12 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 13 | It was lying on its side with its legs drawn stiffly up to a grossly distended belly . |
| 14 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 15 | Her milky eyes grinned slyly up at Athelstan . |
| 16 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 17 | One of the problems the European traders encountered early on in their attempt to develop longer trade routes , was that peoples in South-East Asia who produced spices highly regarded in Europe did not , for their part , show any great desire for European products . |
| 18 | Two supporters laid flat out near the centre circle . |
| 19 | She was lying stretched out , her head against a pillow of lichen-covered stone , her eyes staring straight up at the incredible blue of the sky . |
| 20 | They saw small children with noses pressed against the window of Birdie Mac 's , and men with caps pulled well down over their faces coming out of Shea 's pub . |
| 21 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 22 | The ladies and gentlemen went slowly out of the room , some protesting quietly that they had not seen enough of their dear relation . |
| 23 | ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point . |
| 24 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 25 | Ajayi looked slowly up at her companion , her old lined face gradually contorting into a smile . |
| 26 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
| 27 | Trees and bushes grew right down to the very edge of it . |
| 28 | It is probable , by the way , that the nocturnal trades go way back in the ancestry of all us mammals . |
| 29 | Cruel blue eyes looked straight back at her . |
| 30 | Her eyes looked pleadingly up at Lewis . |