Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 . |
| 3 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 4 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 5 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 6 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 7 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 8 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 9 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 10 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 11 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 12 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 13 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 14 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 15 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 16 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 17 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 18 | Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters . |
| 19 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 20 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 21 | Then Gary Gregory leaned over to a pal viewing the programme with him and said : ‘ Can you keep a secret ? |
| 22 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 23 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 24 | The Hudson 's Bay Company went on trading at its posts on the shore of the Bay , and did rather well for its shareholders , but French fur traders moved out beyond the Great Lakes and by the 1740s La Verendrye had led them to places well west of the Bay . |
| 25 | After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants |
| 26 | Thin silk cords and silver chains hung down from the nets , which Apanage adjusting by pulling and tweaking them . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 28 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 29 | Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago . |
| 30 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |