Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until ICI sold off its £5.5 million European business , Courtaulds ' presence in Germany was a two-man Application Support Centre in Bremen . |
| 2 | Most late nineteenth-century feminists saw feminism primarily as a movement for moral reform , which would of necessity bring in its wake desirable political and social change . |
| 3 | Chalmers will be at Netherdale this afternoon hoping to see his club finish off their Division I season with a win over Gala , but no matter what happens , Melrose — Andy Purves is in for the injured Gary Parker — will be presented with the Championship Trophy after the match by the Scottish Rugby Union president , Robin Charters . |
| 4 | Mansfield thought out her stories first , made brief notes to remind herself of the details , of the change that was to take place , and then wrote . |
| 5 | David relaxed over his Dover sole , and sipped leisurely at his mineral water . |
| 6 | For North it has been a disappointing season and Saturday 's 57-run defeat summed up their form this year . |
| 7 | Last January , Adams & Nevile set up its Millenium International Fund and has no intention of giving away the name . |
| 8 | Asda may have helped a number of youngsters make up their minds this year with their special offer on Lichfield aftershave lotion . |
| 9 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My daughter is twenty-eight , you know , quite capable of looking after herself without her parents breathing down her neck all the time . ’ |
| 11 | Murray turned back his bedcover one evening to find a dead toad spatchcocked across his pillow . |
| 12 | Several Sampdoria substitutes and officials leapt off their seats next to the dug-out , hurdled the board and jostled the England midfielder . |
| 13 | It was like a net of sound falling over my mind ready to trawl the truth . |
| 14 | Lisa ties up her trainers ready to start her energetic new lifestyle |
| 15 | It took some time , and no little resolution , before the tightly curling mass hung round her face tangle-free at last , and she could crawl wearily into bed . |
| 16 | Rose moved around her factory aware all the time of the undercurrents from the women working there . |
| 17 | SNAP : ‘ Megamix ’ ( Arista ) Turbo powered dance crew mix up their Number One single , a Top Five hit and two Top Ten hits for mega success candidate — out now |
| 18 | She walked heavily upstairs again , relieved to have a chance to think through her options undistracted by David 's physical presence . |
| 19 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 20 | Only Bristol and Saracens went ahead , the West Country club ploughing forcibly through the mud at the Memorial Ground to see off their opponents 13–6 . |
| 21 | ‘ Clearly the series of ill-thought-out and often hastily assembled radical new ideas currently being imposed on various sectors of the national workforce bring in their wake huge tidal waves of paperwork that completely swamp any enthusiasm for change , ’ he said . |
| 22 | In the accusatorial system of trial the prosecution sets out its case first . |
| 23 | His helmet slipped over his head three furlongs out and was dangling under his right armpit passing the post , falling off a few strides later . |
| 24 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 25 | To top things off , she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go , and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like . |
| 26 | ‘ Furious ’ then sailed for Tail o' the Bank to pick up our Atlantic anti-submarine escort . |
| 27 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 28 | Princess Diana sent back her Mercedes 500 SL sports car . |
| 29 | Potter gave up his troop 25 July 1645 , becoming parliamentary commissioner to the army in succession to his brother Captain John Potter , who was killed at the battle of Naseby . |
| 30 | ( Could 10,000 men take up their positions undetected ? ) |