Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer . |
| 2 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’ |
| 4 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 5 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |
| 6 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 7 | Sensed somewhere below the thinking mind , somehow older and wiser than consciousness , there is … |
| 8 | A modern hotel situated right in the city centre and only 300 metres walk from the railway station . |
| 9 | the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area . |
| 10 | They competed to see who could eat most in the hotel restaurant and gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas . |
| 11 | Sub-set variable is listed numerically after the base part , with cross-reference to the parent assembly/s . |
| 12 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 13 | The cause is a faulty ( or nonexistent ) thermostat not allowing hot water to circulate properly through the inlet manifold . |
| 14 | They suffer badly from the leaf menace . |
| 15 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 16 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 17 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 18 | The two men continued to stroll leisurely around the perimeter fence which separated the living quarters and parade grounds of the air-base from the restricted areas of the hangars and control tower . |
| 19 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 20 | The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable — it tells you only what will normally happen . |
| 21 | But the great popularity of that sort of book in the 1920s and 1930s had another effect besides producing the series of direct variants that led eventually to the crime novel . |
| 22 | Let us think rather of a twin track approach , in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences . |
| 23 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 24 | In what amounted to a fledgling display of player-power and a dress rehearsal for the player 's campaign to secure greater freedom of contract , the Scots players argued bitterly with the Chelsea board . |
| 25 | The general rule is that problems which can not be solved at lower levels are referred upward through the organisation structure until the problem reaches an official with enough authority and power to solve the problem . |
| 26 | This is Atlantic water , which originates in the north Atlantic Ocean at a temperature of 2°C and salinity of 35 ppt , and cools almost to 0°C as it circulates slowly about the ocean basin ; its salinity remains high at 34.9ppt . |
| 27 | It also crosses successfully with the Sahiwal zebu of Pakistan . |
| 28 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 29 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 30 | I should n't think so for a minute darling . |