Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " 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 | Nicholson said he was stunned ; he never knew and thus the magazine article did not include this item . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | About half way through a sump and filter check would be taken and then the ground running would continue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 14 | There is no reason for consumers ' tastes to have changed and so the demand curve is unaffected . |