Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 2 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 3 | After a few minutes , the door reopened and Eddie returned with a mug of tea , drew up a third chair and sat down . |
| 4 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 5 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 6 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 7 | If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on . |
| 8 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 9 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 10 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 11 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 12 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 13 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 14 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 15 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 16 | However , some way or other , it was always washed out the next day and back to normal . ’ |
| 17 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 18 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 19 | He had called to ask her advice about the small dinner party he intended to give in the next week or so . |
| 20 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 21 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 22 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 23 | Each week , on shopping day , I tear out the first page and have a ready-made shopping list . |
| 24 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 25 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 26 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 27 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 28 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 29 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 30 | Turn over the last page and the credits begin , ‘ The people in this novel are fictitious , the background of public events is not ’ . |