Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 2 | Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person . |
| 3 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 4 | They had to meet up with Nellie a great deal as she was supervising the school 's wardrobe . |
| 5 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 6 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 7 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 8 | Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later . |
| 9 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |
| 10 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 11 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 12 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 13 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 14 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 15 | From Sigriswil the road leads down to Gunten an attractive lakeside resort facing the Niesen across the lake , with very active sailing and windsurfing schools . |
| 16 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 17 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 18 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 19 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 20 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 21 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |
| 22 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
| 23 | More recent imports include Stearman N746BJ which , unusually , was actually flown across the Atlantic , arriving at Glasgow on July 30 and then flying on to Gamston the next day . |
| 24 | I tell you I do n't , did n't realise that er Paul and Charlene have said er they can move in by June the second all you 've got ta do is dump everything in there then bugger off to Malaya for the summer and sort out when he gets back ! |
| 25 | Big Jack walked out on Newcastle the next day . |
| 26 | ‘ The quicker you get back to Paris the better , Nessy , for all concerned . ’ |
| 27 | One of the organisers , Charles Rigby , put the whole thing into proportion as I was anxiously sorting out with Clare a second name for the next-of-kin slot at the back of her passport . |
| 28 | After the cruise , you will fly from Aswan to Cairo and overnight at the Cairo Marriott , flying back to London the following day . |
| 29 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 30 | When he got to Bec , Anselm at once spotted his quality , and he was soon sending back to Lanfranc a glowing account of Osbern 's progress : he was ‘ growing daily in knowledge and serenity ’ ; and the friendship between him and Anselm had become so close that they could not be separated without tearing their two souls apart . |