Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 2 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 3 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 4 | These beliefs , attitudes and values obviously come about as a result of the pressures stemming from material , economic , political and other forces , but , once they are in existence , they exert an influence of their own on people 's behaviour . |
| 5 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 6 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 7 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 8 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 9 | The trapdoor in the floor is intact and a set of stone steps below lead down to the basement , location 3a . |
| 10 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 12 | The words just came out without my planning to say them . |
| 13 | On beginners ' courses we can have adults in four metre Europas alongside kids in Rotobats whilst the bigger kids soon move on to playboats and squirt boats . |
| 14 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 15 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 16 | Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business . |
| 17 | If the audience did n't yell , ’ Awlright ! ’ when the other kids finally stand up to him , then the part did n't serve its purpose in the movie . ’ |
| 18 | Needless to say , these mega-rich popsters just swan around in wellies every other weekend for the benefit of the colour supplements ‘ Day In The Life ’ features and leave all the actual farming to peasants who get up at dawn and get paid in potatoes . |
| 19 | Then his eyes finally flicked back to his secretary . |
| 20 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
| 21 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 22 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 23 | Newspapers are thrown away and reference books soon go out of date . |
| 24 | A last few cars still bleed in from the next town . |
| 25 | ‘ Those that do have relationships usually end up with strong and critical women , a reflection of their regimented life as an adolescent . |
| 26 | Although none of these methods have ever proved completely successful , the idea of having wings appealed to the Goblins best of all and the other methods rapidly fell out of favour . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've experience of two kinds of Darkfall , ’ continued Gilbert , still looking to find a way around Cardiff , the words still spilling out of him . |
| 28 | Except , ’ she added regretfully , ‘ the presents usually turn out to be nicked . |
| 29 | Private eyes always win through in the end . ’ |
| 30 | People and cars always came in through the big double gates . |