Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this square building was excavated in 1925–6 , it was found to have been much reduced by stone robbing and only the south-west corner of masonry had survived . |
| 2 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 3 | The waiting patients pricked their ears and tried not to smile and then the surgery door would burst open and eject … a little old lady , pink with pleasure ! |
| 4 | When we moved here I was surround by sheep now I find I am surrounded by a sunday market , a bulldog bash , drag racing and now a pop festival . ’ |
| 5 | I mean if you fill a , fill a tank with water that 's gon na sink and now the steam hopper had a strong back on |
| 6 | Twelve channels of the reactor were refuelled before the outage began and then the fuel route was taken out of service immediately . |
| 7 | But the expected tourist bonanza did not happen and now the finance company wants its money and the family have until Thursday to find backers . |
| 8 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 9 | Nicholson said he was stunned ; he never knew and thus the magazine article did not include this item . |
| 10 | The most practical means of achieving this would be to partially construct the wall panels on the ground with the uprights and horizontals pegged together ; the wattling would then be inserted and finally the wall plate . |
| 11 | The first clinical signs are dullness , reluctance to eat and usually a temperature rise to 103F–105F together with a runny nose which starts watery but soon becomes a very thick yellowy discharge down both nostrils . |
| 12 | About half way through a sump and filter check would be taken and then the ground running would continue . |
| 13 | The ‘ shutter ’ signal indicates when the High Speed Shutter is on , and the cursor-type indicator above it shows the brightness of the scene being recorded and hence the lens aperture as set by the automatic exposure system . |
| 14 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 15 | There is no reason for consumers ' tastes to have changed and so the demand curve is unaffected . |
| 16 | Parents may be too busy to attend to them or not fast enough in their reactions and understanding of what is required and so the child tantrums in desperation and anger . |