Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photo stood in the doorway , placed rather in the way children put dolls in a window to let them look out . |
| 2 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 3 | Indeed , the screenplay is credited to one American and two Japanese writers , an effort which parallels the way the film was actually shot — with both Japanese and American units completing sections which were later blended together in the editing rooms . |
| 4 | Apply it to one of the surfaces then clamp together until the glue sets . |
| 5 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 6 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 7 | As a Race Today editorial ( in October 1974 ) put it , ‘ the section to benefit most from the trade unions are white men over the age of thirty-five . |
| 8 | Public commendations and small gratuities were so minor in character , and so random in distribution , that they contributed little to the City Police 's power of inducement . |
| 9 | The black walls of an enormous sprawling house rose menacingly from the rank weeds and thorns and , as Cleo had noticed , a thin reed of smoke was seeping from one of the many narrow chimneys . |
| 10 | The W algorithm was designed to be more breadth-first , and more consistent results were expected regardless of the input conditions . |
| 11 | It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings . |
| 12 | Ideas from object-oriented programming may also help databases to communicate better with the programming languages that modify their data — and to tell the difference between two items which coincidentally have the same characteristics . |
| 13 | The trust funds are reported only in the fund accounts . |
| 14 | There were no pavements in the little village of Samana , four or five miles from the complex , and chickens and goats wandered idly along the dirt roads , scavenging for scraps . |
| 15 | The Roman Amphitheatre — ‘ King Arthur 's Round Table ’ of local tradition — stands just outside the fortress walls . |
| 16 | The Roman Amphitheatre stands just outside the fortress walls |
| 17 | Although earnings prospects all over Europe are still excellent the balance has now been slightly tipped away from the equity markets . |
| 18 | For normal playback over the viewfinder ( or on a television screen ) , you will need to use the tape-running buttons , and these are generally grouped separately from the camera controls . |
| 19 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 20 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 21 | The odds and the prize money here were considerably higher than at Bampton and as Seb was walking away from the race officials with his winnings , a voice in his ear said , ‘ Put that money somewhere safe , Seb . |
| 22 | It all starts at 9.30am and finishes just before the swimming events . |
| 23 | The circuit operates by storing energy in the capacitor C , which can be discharged rapidly into the phase windings when additional torque is needed . |
| 24 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 25 | They skirted the lawn , keeping close to the flower borders . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ Although parents can not be blamed totally for the way children end up , we are able to shape their behaviour and offer them moral guidance . |
| 27 | Anthony Games , of distributors Kelco , said the danger should have been stressed more in the instruction books . |
| 28 | ( Automation , computer systems , and so on , should not have been introduced to reduce the number of staff but to free qualified staff to work directly with the library users . ) |
| 29 | Los Angeles 11pm , Wednesday April 29 : Driving home past the movie studios that line Melrose Avenue , Chuck D 's angry rap bounces around my head : ‘ For all the years we looked like clowns . |
| 30 | At that instant , his paralysis vanished and he moved quickly towards the glass doors . |