Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The McLaren girl did not answer right away and Mrs. Favor leaned towards the girl . |
| 2 | They moved on again and Timothy Gedge went with them , swinging his carrier-bag . |
| 3 | I say rightly so because Herbert Spencer 's theory of evolution was fundamentally different from Darwin 's , even though it 's often confused with it . |
| 4 | Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right . |
| 5 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 6 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 7 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 8 | Many of the residents moved out shortly after Mrs Hill announced her intention to sell , and in fact there were only four of us left when the new landlord took possession . |
| 9 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 10 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 11 | AT THE Dylan show in New York a week previously , he came on directly after Sinead O'Connor got booed off . |
| 12 | Moreover , the argument goes , OUP has — contrary to expectations in some quarters — done rather well since Sir Roger took over the reins . |
| 13 | Rosen did not speak right away so Delia Sutherland added , ‘ Well , has he ? |
| 14 | Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Sugar show rather better than Prince Charles , Ben Elton or Mick Jagger . |
| 15 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 16 | But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs . |
| 17 | She will do so only if Mr Major resigns . |
| 18 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 19 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 20 | IT was said here yesterday that Vic Reeves , the Darlington alternative comedian ( that is somebody who does n't make you laugh which is alternative to a comedian ) was the sole North-East recipient of a gong at the BAFTA awards the other night . |
| 21 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 22 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 23 | Pitch and enveloping , it still manages to thunder along now that Dean Garcia has binned a large chunk of the previously dominant rhythmic backing tracks , thanks to drummer Monti , whose role in the group was always criminally hidden before . |
| 24 | The goat suddenly trotted eagerly forward and Mrs Hollidaye had to run to keep hold of the leather strap . |
| 25 | He dialled the Athene office again , and was told once more that Alexandra Maitland was not available . |
| 26 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 27 | Most of the other 10 queens are on European thrones , but the thin blue-blooded line reaches as far as Queen Aishwarya of Nepal , and Queen Mata-aho of Tonga . |
| 28 | He 's been going even longer than Johnny Carson and appearing on his show is a pleasurable experience , with great Irish hospitality thrown in . |
| 29 | Sales are going very well and Professor Jones was delighted to see copies at every location he visited in Brittany last summer . |
| 30 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |