Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move takes Totten , who will be part-time with the Methil club , back to the Second Division where he originally found the Perth club . |
| 2 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 3 | She clung to him as he charged up the stairs and into her bedroom where he unceremoniously dumped her on the bed . |
| 4 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 5 | Across the small table in the basement club where they now sat , Rune 's light eyes challenged her statement . |
| 6 | But paragraph ( a ) does not , in my judgment , give any substantive cause of action where none before existed . |
| 7 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 8 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 9 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 10 | Secondly , the rocks of intrusions are often more resistant to erosion than the surrounding country rock so they frequently form prominent landforms once exposed at the surface . |
| 11 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 12 | And Bill loves the wildlife , he 's a dedicated bird- watcher although he hardly looks like it when servicing the huge polarizers that turn coal into a fine powder for burning . |
| 13 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 14 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 15 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 16 | But no sooner had Theda left in her carriage than she immediately sought out Lady Usk . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've learned more about love from people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat world in which I spent my life . ’ |
| 18 | There are more threads in this web than you even know yet ; more than you could understand ; more than you would ever forgive . |
| 19 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 20 | A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out . |
| 21 | Furthermore , he could leave the manor if he so wished , and could therefore negotiate for better terms from the lord by threatening to go if the latter refused concessions ( 79 , p.31 ) . |
| 22 | The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ? |
| 23 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
| 24 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 25 | The reader would have a much fuller impression of your state of mind if you lovingly evoked , say , the feel of a rug under your feet , the texture of the curtains , the smell of a shawl . |
| 26 | This is a key issue in multimedia only because full motion , full frame video has been talked up by the industry until it even has its own acronym ( FMFFV or FFFMV , depending on preferences ) . |
| 27 | The store manager said he would motivate subordinates in the following ways : offering praise , incentives , providing re-training , and finally a quiet talk if nothing else succeeded ; in other words threatening them with dismissal . |
| 28 | As far as I was concerned he could have my every piece of silver if he just allowed me to gaze at his daughter . |
| 29 | Painting a scene of cherubs holding scrolls takes a lot of patience and practice , but you can get an equally effective result if you just paint on the scrolls with some suitable motto . |
| 30 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |