Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | Therefore for these people it may be sensible to attend both Fellowships right from the start . |
| 3 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
| 4 | But clearly we can not blame a single organic agent for the simultaneous extinction of all the varied and unrelated groups of dinosaurs , the pterosaurs , the marine reptiles , the ammonites , the belemnites , the rudistids and many minor groups besides at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 5 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 6 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 7 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 8 | So you 're kicking against the pricks right from the start . |
| 9 | If there is a tunnel , then I reckon it 'll come out in the woods somewhere to the north of the fence an' close to it . |
| 10 | It 's really exag it 's really exaggerated , they really make erm , I can make all the country folk showed as real louts most of the people in the pub Tony and then the servants are really stupid and then |
| 11 | Not only is the snow cover likely to remain comfortable in the high resorts right into the start of May , but the lower the temperature , the safer the snow . |
| 12 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 13 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 14 | ARIES — A YEAR dominated by Uranus , Neptune , Saturn and Pluto can not be easy , and Arieans must expect to face some difficulties and setbacks somewhere along the line . |
| 15 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 16 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 17 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 18 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 19 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 20 | Mr Roger Ward , chief executive of the Polytechnic and Colleges Employers Forum , said it was regrettable that Natfhe seemed determined to take on the employers right across the sector . |
| 21 | What are we doing in terms of establishing contacts right across the range with Russia , to keep it closely tied in with western Europe ? |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't explain the rules properly at the outset so it 's only fair we should start again … ’ |
| 23 | In March a draft anti-abortion bill in the Sejm had been signed by 171 deputies mostly from the ZChN and the Centre Alliance . |
| 24 | Three shifts right round the clock . |
| 25 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 26 | The government 's taxing agents , the Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise officials , levy taxes only with the House of Commons ' approval . |
| 27 | Different ages , different ways of life … reasons enough for the variety of co-ordinated options we have to offer at Allied . |
| 28 | The project involves a close study of the scientific context of research proposals together with the interactions of researchers , reviewers and funding agencies — topics which have not so far been systematically examined . |
| 29 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 30 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |