Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The car has broken down and my two mates have taken it to a local garage to get it fixed . ’ |
| 2 | A tablet from Phaistos shows an orderly but sinister procession of four daemons , each with its left arm hanging down and its right arm raised , holding a staff ( Figure 49 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But apparently the street lights had come on and their electric glare was filtered through the torn mesh of dusty leaves , giving an elegance to the street which it had otherwise forgotten . |
| 4 | But the street lights had come on and their electric glare filtered through the dusty leaves to give an elegance to the street which it had long since forgotten . |
| 5 | ‘ Na , na , na , baby ’ ducking his head down and shaking it , his elbows bent up and his clicking fingers held high behind his ears , while he footed round the room . |
| 6 | Like a miniature adult , his head bows slightly and his small hand comes up for a firm adult shake . |
| 7 | Come over here and spent his silver wedding just to come here and his golden wedding ! |
| 8 | I 'm not 100% fit yet and my initial aim was just to get through a game , but I 'm not philosophical in that situation . |
| 9 | On hitting the stop , the wire trip is forced back in relation to the tube and , at the other end of a dowel pushrod , the release pin allows the parabear to fall away and its static line is pulled from the parachute pack . |
| 10 | The good thing about being in the scrum is when you push over and they all collapse and you fall on top of them . |
| 11 | Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted . |
| 12 | Her mouth was turned down and her little eyes were beady with worry . |
| 13 | ‘ what I call dressing up and what other people call dressing up are two different things ’ |
| 14 | But what I call dressing up and what other people calling dressing up are probably two different things . |
| 15 | With her veil pushed back and her black hood shading her face , she looked rather like a nun . |
| 16 | I have erm one daughter living here and a son living here but my eldest daughter is in the United States and my granddaughter is just finishing her last year of law . |
| 17 | Unfortunately Sten could n't get back , the light was going down and our fearless pest controllers were left stranded . |
| 18 | Some were even cultivated over and their long-time entrances completely disappeared . |
| 19 | In the dark , Seth would be his true self , his human face off but his dark glasses still on . |
| 20 | Public NME had the good sense to decline an invitation to a party for FLOWERED UP and their short film Weekender . |
| 21 | Eventually the fuel is used up and our naive expectation would be that the star should contract to a size at which pressure and gravitation are in balance . |
| 22 | She dodged sideways but her frozen muscles would n't respond and she half fell , clawing upwards again like an athlete on the starting-block but another shot scorched through the mud in her hair and she slumped to her knees in despair . |
| 23 | She thrust back the chair and strode round the desk , her two hands locked together and her whole figure trembling with rage . |
| 24 | The corners of his mouth were dragged down and his plump cheeks looked shrunken , like withered apples . |
| 25 | I have no energy to go out and my social life is nonexistent . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Bore da , miss , what can I get you ? ’ he asked pleasantly and his blue eyes looked into hers with obvious admiration . |
| 28 | Therefore , though the high density of Mercury suggested it might well have an iron core , Mercury was known to spin slowly and its large surface area to mass ratio indicated that its interior was cool enough for most or all of any core to be solid , and thus no detectable dipole field was expected . |
| 29 | In his heart he wanted to run properly but his stupid legs were letting him down . |
| 30 | After the last time , he 'd vowed not to do any more , but we all found our firm stances weakened as soon as the blindfold was pulled down and our well-rounded arguments got vaguer and vaguer as our minds raced with apprehension . |