Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 3 | I 'll have money enough to pay you by spring , Christian — that 's if you think three pounds ten shillings an acre is a fair price . ’ |
| 4 | One primary schools only has one inside toilet for 60 pupils in one of its buildings . |
| 5 | Raider Terence Joseph , 27 , ran off , but was caught after TV 's Crime Monthly showed him on security film . |
| 6 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 7 | It was a disappointment for his many fans not to see him in action . |
| 8 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 9 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 10 | EIRE 's rapidly growing catering industry still has plenty of room for investment , according to a report published by the country 's National Food Centre . |
| 11 | The hour to which we journalists strictly ration ourselves at lunchtime had already passed and the mart reports would n't sub themselves , but a selection of citric sorbets proved worth the extra 45p . |
| 12 | It helps to create a pattern in the subconscious mind so that , as you go about your routine actions , the mind automatically prepares itself for sleep . |
| 13 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 14 | Your readers now have lots of choice . |
| 15 | Indeed , at the very moment at which Branson now engaged her in conversation in the Manor kitchen , her husband , Ronnie Leahy , was working in the studio next door , producing a Virgin group called Wigwam . |
| 16 | And Evan even stirs himself to encore with a heart-breaking solo shimmy through The Shirelles ' ‘ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ? ’ , the latest addition to Lemonheads ' litany of unlikely , gorgeous cover versions . |
| 17 | From extremely limited possession the Scots bravely threw everything into attack in the last 20 minutes and were rewarded with two tries from Lineen and Sole . |
| 18 | The home side then indulged themselves in exhibition play and duly came unstuck when Frensham equalised from a rebound after Dunn had saved from close range . |
| 19 | The agent then put me on hold while she consulted a colleague . |
| 20 | Rindt then crashed it in practice for the Canadian race and flatly refused to drive it again . |
| 21 | His words briefly stunned her into silence . |
| 22 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |
| 23 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 24 | Four , five , even six or seven reversioners might be appointed for a single place ; and , while all might have been appointed by the King initially , this queue of hopefuls stretching into the future certainly deprived him of choice when the office became vacant . |
| 25 | Brenda could n't manage a smile , but she shut her lips tight to keep herself from crying — which the Brownie Guider noticed , although she did n't show that she had . |
| 26 | The founding brothers never entrusted anything to paper , fearing that rituals and their interpretation of them might fall into the wrong hands . |
| 27 | This newly created honourary office carried with it ex officio membership of the executive committee so that , it was hoped Ayliffe 's years of experience would not be wholly lost to the Association by his decision not to offer himself for reelection as President . |
| 28 | Ice on steps and pathways is a real danger in winter so sprinkle them with sand . |
| 29 | Dis poetry nar put yu to sleep |
| 30 | These heavily-armoured dorads are easily entangled in fine nets so catch them with care . |