Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Occasionally she stayed the night in the boiler room , and when Minton suddenly began exploding with wit , it was sometimes she who best engaged him in repartee . |
| 2 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 3 | Beckett mostly ceased writing in English after Watt , completed in the early 1940s . |
| 4 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 5 | The B set did particularly badly on number of words correctly accessed according to definition ( i ) i.e. intended words ( 1% ) , but did better on definition ( ii ) i.e. valid words ( 20% ) . |
| 6 | He had a left hemiplegia , and was flaccid at first , although the flaccidity soon started changing to spasticity . |
| 7 | As well as supplying the field staff with identification of rocks , the work also involves dealing with rock aggregates for potential use as suitable road metal or for use in the production of concrete . |
| 8 | If you are now feeling completely at ease with Stage 1 of the tummy exercises and you have mastered at least 8 repeats of each exercise then start working on Stage 2 — not only will you look good , you will take the strain off your back . |
| 9 | These forces in turn can react to various pathological processes such as infections , chronic irritants , including smoking , toxic agents , chronic irradiation , nutrients , etc. , which serve as activators in the process of carcinogenicity in accordance with the circumstances previously discussed relating to cell vulnerability . |
| 10 | The conversation drifted to whaling , where the Norwegian record also seemed lacking in compassion and common sense . |
| 11 | Reimbursement of medical , hospital and treatment expenses while on holiday ( including emergency dental treatment ) and hotel and repatriation expenses to the British Isles necessarily incurred arising from injury sustained or sickness declaring itself during the period of the holiday ( including those of any one person required on medical advice to accompany the Insured Person ) . |
| 12 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 13 | Even if there is an answer for these , other questions still remain beating like blood about my head . |
| 14 | As she became a phenomenon across the world Kylie and her organisation also began looking at sponsorship and allowing the star 's image to be associated with High Street products . |
| 15 | Things really got going after lunch when those brave enough took part in one of the three fitness classes accompanied by some traditional charleston style music where some of the more experienced feet could be seen ‘ cutting a rug ’ . |
| 16 | Firstly , why , in the absence of any generalised heroin use prior to 1979 on Wirral , did large numbers of young people suddenly start experimenting with heroin ? |
| 17 | Slim people generally eat according to appetite , in a fairly relaxed fashion not governed by rules or diet sheets . |
| 18 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 19 | At the Swindon Railway workshops , the expansion links have been renovated and the rocker arms just require machining for completion . |
| 20 | Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase . |
| 21 | In the face of potential starvation , honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa , but they learn to avoid being clubbed . |
| 22 | Leapor usually describes cooking in detail . |
| 23 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 24 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 25 | The PROFITBOSS never stops prospecting for profit . |
| 26 | Policemen also disliked dealing with rape , although obviously for different reasons . |
| 27 | Mergers between giants such as GE and RCA ( 1985 ) and between Sperry and Burroughs ( 1986 ) inevitably forced smaller competitors also to consider growing by merger ; 1987 duly saw the start of a fresh wave of European electronics mergers . |
| 28 | CLOSE CALL : Neil Fairbrother narrowly avoids playing on while ( inset ) umpires John Hampshire and Nigel Plews deliberate on Fairbrother 's run out scare |