Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could he bear to see them wired-made vulnerable to the least whim of their lords and masters ? |
| 2 | Caffeine delays the onset of sleep , keeping you wide awake until the small hours . |
| 3 | As well as launching his military counteroffensive against the rebels , Saddam Hussein dispatched a number of his most trusted supporters to the south to rally troops and Ba'athist officials . |
| 4 | Jackson , who earned a total of £40,000 , said : ‘ I was pedestrian away from the blocks and that cost me vital hundredths of a second . |
| 5 | It remains our conviction that the umpires have done their conscientious best throughout the summer , and that only ‘ line decisions ’ ( run-outs , stumpings , boundary incidents ) should be referred to a third umpire who has a TV playback monitor . |
| 6 | Luiza had decked her inevitable blue with a piece of tat borrowed from the wardrobe , and Ingrid wore black silk trousers and a gold waistcoat and very little else . |
| 7 | Some two years later , on completion of the social club , the magnate was asked if he would like something suitable inscribed over the portal . |
| 8 | What do you say to the fathers , and I have had dozens from up and down the country contacting me , what do you say to the fathers like that chap over there in th in the front row , who has handed over sometimes tens of thousands of pounds , he 's done his bit , he 's had it rubber stamped by the court , he 's gone ahead in good faith and made his his his future , and then the Child Support Agency comes along and just without so much as a by your leave pulls the rug . |
| 9 | Wanted to look his elegant best for the bitch , his nominal company chief , Leonora Buckmaster . |
| 10 | Yet somehow , this lot get it right most of the time . |
| 11 | And because if you 're just looking at every word separately everything lo you 've got to learn so many things have n't you if you can pot the patterns and then you can start having a a guess at what it might be and getting it right most of the time and then you gradually learn them as you go along . |
| 12 | Only Nikias mentions their specific brief from the People to proceed against Selinus , and his views do not prevail . |
| 13 | It must have been lucky to escape the sickles , he mused , as he watched its clumsy struggling across the cut stalks . |
| 14 | This certainly stuck a chord with the pilot whom I had just photographed as he flew his newly-restored P-40 for the first time . |
| 15 | Celtic boss Liam Brady was once Slater 's agent and targeted his young hopeful from the moment he moved into management . |
| 16 | A stranger attending a reception to mark the opening of new or refurbished office accommodation recently might have found it difficult differentiating between the property professionals and the PR men . |
| 17 | Most believers , it is likely , find it difficult much of the time even to remember what it is they are supposed to believe . |
| 18 | So when we 're talking about defensive driving and we 're talking about safety , which is the main object of all this , to keep yourself safe one of the most important things is the attitude of the individual , would you not agree ? |
| 19 | MORE and more people are swapping their suburban semi-detached for a peaceful rural haven — and for many , barns are more appealing than cottages . |
| 20 | I thought I saw something purple floating in the tide , a pair of trousers , or a skirt , an upsidedown umbrella even . |
| 21 | The thought of it , in fact , kept her awake most of the night . |
| 22 | He asks her if she saw anyone suspicious near to the road . |
| 23 | Like his former training partner Robb , 19-year-old Walker twice improved his personal best over the weekend . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 25 | I go shrimp pink , which occasionally turns to lobster red , and one of these days this dangerous pretence will seem me taken straight from the beach to the burns unit . |
| 26 | They cast their net wide over the waters of pop and rock and are as happy sounding like INXS as Northside . |
| 27 | George Duffield , only 10 years younger than Lester , did his energetic best on the well-backed runner-up Case Law . |
| 28 | ‘ But I do get it right most of the time . |
| 29 | But Wilde also fashioned his transgressive aesthetic into a celebration of anarchic deviance , and this is yet another factor which makes it difficult to identify the sensibility involved . |
| 30 | The man called out ‘ 1-2-3-Bungee ’ , I did not hesitate , I launched myself head first off the platform . |