Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 2 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 3 | Her heart tumbling about like a circus clown , and suddenly breathless , she said , ‘ I thought you were out . ’ |
| 4 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 5 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 6 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 7 | Ben got away to a lightning start and won in a blazing 10.06 seconds ; Chidi ( not going to Scotland ) was second , and I was some way back in third place with 10.32 seconds . |
| 8 | The problem of course goes inescapably to a notion of the quality of experience ( though what we are calling the aesthetic here is not , or not only , a question of intensity ) . |
| 9 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 10 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 11 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the prime reason for the Bundesbank 's decision to go ahead with an interest rate cut will have been the solidarity pact which was agreed last Saturday between Chancellor Kohl 's government and the opposition to put Germany 's post-unification finances on a sound footing and help the revival of eastern Germany . |
| 13 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 14 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 15 | As Mr Crump meandered away on a line his wife had drawn for him and in which he half-believed , John-Augustus recalled vividly a discussion he had overheard in the stable-yard earlier that morning . |
| 16 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 17 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 18 | The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more . |
| 19 | Perhaps er , you see , Sundays some er ta er er , every runner goes out on a Sunday . |
| 20 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 21 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 22 | Again in the top right-hand section of the map the dominant whiteness ceased abruptly in a line extending down from Danzig hsien to Poznan , and thence to Krakow and across to Lvov , ending on the shores of the Black Sea , at Odessa . |
| 23 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 24 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 25 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 26 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 27 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 28 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 29 | Its acreage expanded quickly as a response to demand fuelled by the emergence of the automobile industry . |
| 30 | I find that many new writers ' stories and poems seem to occur in a spatial and social vacuum : the writer launches straight into an account of action , ideas , thoughts , feelings , without giving any clear sense of where all this is taking place . |