Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
| 2 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 3 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 4 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
| 5 | This was the famous gun that could put a shell on to a target and then another two on the same spot precisely . |
| 6 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 7 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
| 8 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 9 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 10 | Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck . |
| 11 | Stir in the yoghurt and honey together in a bowl until they are thoroughly combined . |
| 12 | ‘ Feelings , ’ cried Dawn , and she jerked back her head and made a funny sort of noise halfway between a laugh and a howl . |
| 13 | As soon as she 'd finished eating Luce moved the tray on to a side-table and , not without a pang , began to read the second diary , followed by the third . |
| 14 | So put it i , put a light on in a room that you will actually be in . |
| 15 | When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem , and begins to pupate . |
| 16 | Place upside down in a dish and pour over the butter , sprinkle with salt and add a tablespoon of vermouth . |
| 17 | Among those who glibly encouraged the notion was J B Priestley , who wrote of football turning its fans into ‘ a new community , all brothers together for an hour and a half … an altogether more splendid kind of life ’ . |
| 18 | A choice of restaurants together with a carvery and Chamberlains A La Carte restaurant . |
| 19 | Remove any damaged outer leaves from the lettuce , cut it in half , then place cut side down on a board and thinly shred each half , using a sharp knife . |
| 20 | We are now supposed to understand Enterprise Solutions less as a show than as a high-level executive meeting that might pass for a meeting of the Unix War College . |
| 21 | But it is surely silly to deny that it has thrown politicians and television journalists together in an association that remains totally invisible to the public . |
| 22 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 23 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 24 | Institutions of the EEA would be an EEA Council ( one minister from each of the 19 countries and a representative of the EC Commission , chaired for six months alternately by an EC or an EFTA member ) , EEA courts to deal with disputes and to hear appeals on competition rulings , an EEA consultative committee , and an EEA joint parliamentary committee . |
| 25 | OLD mates Graham Gooch and Keith Fletcher are just one more defeat away from a crisis that could seriously threaten their international partnership . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 27 | They 'll give lots of pleasure indoors for a week or two , and can then be left to their own devices outdoors for the rest of the year ; getting dried out in summer is a positive help . |
| 28 | Always make a cut just above a bud or eye where the exposed surface is near the nodal storage cells and will quickly form healing callus , and where the growth bud will receive the diverted energy . |
| 29 | That 's why he sees rushes not as an eyesore but an asset nature 's way of providing Welsh Mountain lambs with shelter from the wind 's keen blade . |
| 30 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |