Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [subord] [noun] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peers into it , but sees only herself , looking shell-shocked , and the room behind her , resembling a Wild West saloon just after Jack Palance has thrown Elisha Cook Jr through the plate-glass window . |
| 2 | Even though his end-of-season future is in doubt , Slaven could win a recall tonight because Andy Payton has a hamstring problem . |
| 3 | ‘ Archaeology needs treasure hunting more than treasure hunting needs archaeology ’ , Garrett is more cautious , stating that archaeology does indeed need ‘ us ’ but that … |
| 4 | The coupling constant in both theories was just the electric charge , e ; weak interactions were weak and of short range simply because M w turns out to be so large . |
| 5 | BOBBY ‘ The Brain ’ Heenan hurls insults from the ringside faster than Randy Savage pulls punches . |
| 6 | " Mother , " she said one day , " may I put Dom João 's medal away until Dom João comes ? " |
| 7 | The central idea of kin selection is that a gene A , causing an animal to be more likely to perform an act X , may increase in frequency in a population even if act X reduces the individual fitness ( expected number of offspring ) of the animal itself , provided that the act increases the fitness of animals related to the actor . |
| 8 | Colleagues , if we believe in playing the full part in the European community then as Steven Hughes has just said we as a union must back the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 9 | Israel thinks Syria wants the UN there because Mr Assad has not accepted , in his heart , the need for face-to-face negotiation with the Jewish state . |
| 10 | Stepping forward to the front of the jungle set , actor William Russell places himself so that the windflow from a small cooling fan falls on his face , ruffling his hair slightly as Ian Chesterton remarks on the slight breeze blowing over this exotic world . |
| 11 | So Howard flies out from the Bahamas just as Bill Saltman flies in . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll not hunt with the Puckeridge again until Mrs. Stevenson has accepted a written apology from you , ’ the Master called after him . |
| 13 | Thanks to the dollar 's recent strength , the Treasury may be granted its wish even if Mr Pöhl continues to insist on doing his job . |
| 14 | It may be boring for nuclear experts to have to worry about plumbing , albeit sophisticated plumbing , but they must prove that they can get the simple bits right before Mr Lawson gives them a new reactor to play with . |
| 15 | Continue along the river and cross over the footbridge just after Gudham Gill flows into the River Nent . |
| 16 | And because , unlike some fathers , I ca n't interest myself in sending a multi-coloured hedgehog spinning around a televisual roller coaster faster than Esther Rantzen changes expression from moronic merriment to Dianesque poor-thing-how-you-must-be-suffering-thank-God-I'm-not solemnity . |
| 17 | She always turns the conversation away when Aunt Minnie starts about marriage and me being an old maid . ’ |
| 18 | He 's had a bad time lately as Madame Verveine has had to go into the nursing-home again . |
| 19 | Another excellent bass player will be on stage tonight as Niamh Parsons teams up with husband Dee Moore and a five-piece band — ‘ Loose Connections ’ . |
| 20 | So he 's my man for this class even though Ian King has already won the Regal which is decided in Northern Ireland . |