Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone are the ties round the feet and in comes a full , loosely fitting single-piece garment , pleated at the neck but still with the top-knot ; the face is completely exposed , showing the features in a peaceful attitude of repose , the limbs no longer with a stiff formality but a far more relaxed naturalism . |
| 2 | I frightened the cat and down dropped the little bird ; it was bleeding from the beak and did not move except its legs in a spasm of pain . |
| 3 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
| 4 | Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks . |
| 5 | Those aged 75 years and over use the whole gamut of health and personal social services more than do younger people , and both usage and need increase with age thereafter . |
| 6 | Our lorry stopped outside one of the marquees and out strode the portly figure of C.Q.M.S. Gerry Ward , who was eventually to become our quartermaster . |
| 7 | I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet . |
| 8 | The situations of the two antiheroes are similar : both men rejected by a hypocritical social order and about to meet an unnoticed death by water.Just as , in his murder scene , Berg heightens the tension by building his music round a single repeated note ( B ) , so here Britten touches on the same procedure , using a held F sharp for the momentous dialogue between Ellen and Balstrode ( which also partly explains the curiously inert harmonies of Ellen 's song " Embroidery in childhood " ) . |
| 9 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 10 | THE ARRIVAL of a live album usually comes with a tacit admission that a band are either low on new material or about to suffer an imminent career flop and need one last cash-in . |