Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 2 | Most of these are basically simple , involving sitting or lying down comfortably and focusing awareness on a pleasing thought ( ‘ Still and calm … still and calm ’ or whatever ; or invent your own ) ; a soft ‘ nonsense sound ’ ( a mantra ) that you repeat under your breath ; on the rise and fall of your chest as you breath ; or successively on different parts of the body , starting at the toes and working upwards . |
| 3 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 4 | Jane also pointed out that Pamela has the ideal figure for trousers and when shopping for skirts , she should choose straight styles that end just below or above the knee . |
| 5 | There was a perpetual hum from the ground below , and occasional harsher metallic bangs and scrapes , and judders of thick silvery snakes that sped along faster than cars and disappeared into black holes in the ground . |
| 6 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 7 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 8 | With these ideas , in concrete mathematical form , it was relatively straightforward to calculate the allowed orbits in more complicated atoms and even in molecules , which are made up of a number of atoms held together by electrons in orbits that go round more than one nucleus . |
| 9 | It looked fragile , held together by struts that seemed no longer than bits of wire . |
| 10 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 11 | It had fewer reporters , fewer offices and relied more heavily than did the Times on official press releases from the Government and its news agency , ZANA . |
| 12 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 13 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 14 | Some said the sport came from the Norsemen , others muttered about the Romans who after all had been in the area for several centuries and left little else but stone , and one literary aficionado had just written a treatise tracing it back in direct line to Jacob 's wrestling with the angel . |
| 15 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 16 | As the horse responds lighten the rein and ride forward again or relax aids until you require another movement and reward with your voice . |
| 17 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 18 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 19 | Then he was back in the car and moving away almost before she 'd unlocked the door . |
| 20 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 21 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 22 | I stopped the boat and drifted as near as I dared . |
| 23 | If light of a certain colour shines on the surface , molecules on the surface will absorb the light and heat up so that they ‘ glow ’ in the STM picture . |
| 24 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |
| 25 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 26 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 27 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 28 | The modern tail and underwater shapes will enable you to make progress in stronger wind and sail far quicker than if you use a wide square-tailed board with a flat bottom . |
| 29 | keith richardson says that most people thought Gloucester were going to lose but it was a great win … they looked like a different side and played exceptionally well and were lifted by the supporters |
| 30 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |