Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 32 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 33 | We will consult widely about the detailed structure of this new qualification , and finalise proposals quickly . |
| 34 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 35 | This elegant , modern hotel is centrally situated right on the busy promenade , across the road from a wide sandy beach . |
| 36 | Situated right on the main promenade of Viareggio , the Hotel Liberty will best suit the more independently minded as it is offered on a bed and breakfast only basis , leaving guests free to set their own meal times . |
| 37 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 38 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 39 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 40 | He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch . |
| 41 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 42 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 43 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 44 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 45 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 46 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 47 | The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture . |
| 48 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 49 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 50 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
| 51 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 52 | Erm we 're not always privy to what goes on with the front bench , but yes we have established regular dialogue with Jack Straw and the environment team , in order that we make sure we are saying the same thing . |
| 53 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 54 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 55 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 56 | The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? " |
| 57 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 58 | The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life . |
| 59 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 60 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |