Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 2 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 3 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 4 | why they ca n't make aeroplanes out of the same stuff |
| 5 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
| 6 | The Powell Duffryn Company came into its own , buying pits up for a few thousand pounds , shutting them down , throwing hundreds out of work . |
| 7 | The thought damped George down for a few miles ; then he asked : ‘ How are the eyes ? ’ |
| 8 | are they going to put railings up to the same height as the wall ? |
| 9 | Jenny came back from Rome and rang Sara up within a few days of arriving home . |
| 10 | This often happens , for example , when a research assistant pulls information off for a less computer literate academic . |
| 11 | ‘ Farmers brought animals along to the same waiting room as human patients . |
| 12 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 13 | What I certainly would n't see in Shetland were snow buntings carrying food in below the same boulders as the puffins , while their mates sang their lovely wild song from the top . |
| 14 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 15 | That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies . |
| 16 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 17 | What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years . |