Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 2 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
| 3 | Just to conclude , I share the view expressed already by Councillor , that just as the issue of the elderly persons homes brought about the loss of control for the Conservatives in , be sure the Health Service will bring about the downfall of the Conservatives in White Hall . |
| 4 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 5 | As a result , the cocoa exporters cut down the use of the toxic pills . |
| 6 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 7 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 8 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 9 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 10 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 11 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 12 | They needed weapons badly so the Iraqis brought in a group of people including me . |
| 13 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 14 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 15 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 16 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 17 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 18 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 19 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 20 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 21 | An arched and columned vestibule block marked out the building as a station , but behind rose a fifteen-storey office block . |
| 22 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 23 | O break instead our British wills of steel Cast out the traitor in our hearts , and slay The coward in our guts ; and turn , and kneel , And listen , and obey . |
| 24 | In any case , the darkness and the Balaclava cut down the risk of recognition . |
| 25 | Just before dawn on 1 October , six generals and brigadiers were murdered and their bodies thrown down a well at a nearby military base , Halim . |
| 26 | Most importantly for Lear , lithography cut out the need for , and the expense of , the middlemen or professional draughtsmen , who all too often destroyed the artistry of a drawing by their clinical interpretation . |
| 27 | The highlight of the week on Lough Owel was the magnificent wild trout of 9lb 9ozs taken on a Mepps near Srudarra Island by Richard Malone , Portarlington . |
| 28 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 29 | All money taken on the railway on this day will be donated to Saxon Wood Children 's Home in Basingstoke . |
| 30 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |