Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] and [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 2 | He managed to open his eyes now and give her a wan smile . |
| 3 | Unfortunately many of the Dizzy games were written on the Spectrum and ported across to the C64 , slowing the action hideously and leaving it a cruel parody of its Speccy counterpart . |
| 4 | ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’ |
| 5 | Will the Foreign Secretary go a bit further and say what the attitude is of the British Government ? |
| 6 | The running action makes you use your ankles more and gives you a longer stride . |
| 7 | Since she left Downing Street , Lady T has sensibly turned her attention elsewhere and built herself a new and interesting life around the globe . |
| 8 | Porter , one of the country 's most respected authorities on paediatrics , had taken a shy Puerto Rican intern called Carmen Rodriguez under his wing twenty years ago and given her the confidence to start up her own practice soon after graduating from medical school , and she was now one of New York 's most popular and in demand paediatricians . |
| 9 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
| 10 | Well , perhaps she 'll come up to town then and pay me a visit . |
| 11 | Therefore , if you really want to move the business forward and make it a great business , you 've got to live it . |
| 12 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 13 | A well-informed horseman simply had to grasp the horse 's head firmly and give it a sharp turn and back him out of the area that had been contaminated by the jading substance . |
| 14 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 15 | It is wise to wash all media thoroughly and to give it a good visual inspection for foreign objects and contaminants . |
| 16 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
| 17 | ‘ Culture is an integrated system of beliefs ( about God or reality or ultimate meanings ) , of values ( about what is true , good , beautiful and normative ) , of customs ( how to behave , relate to others , talk , pray , dress , work , trade , farm , eat , etc. ) , and of institutions which express these beliefs , values and customs ( government , law courts , temples or churches , family , school , hospitals , factories , shops , unions , clubs , etc. ) , which bind a society together and give it a sense of identity , dignity , security , and continuity . ’ |
| 18 | It will provide spacious accommodation for the journey home and spare you the expense of my fare . ’ |
| 19 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 20 | Go and visit the marchioness to-morrow and tell her the story . |
| 21 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 22 | Well , he 's taking a lot longer and costing us a lot more money in terms of letting us know his view . |
| 23 | Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look . |
| 24 | Chair , can I just help you here recently , because we 've had a recent case ourselves erm , this is an ironic twist to this , because Councillor Patten 's being writing to the County on Highway and Traffic issues recently and sending us a copy , and it 's stunned us a little bit , because normally they would write to us direct , but there 's a sting in this because we do n't know whether we 're supposed to respond to him now , or the county . |
| 25 | Tracy shows us these friendships subconsciously and shows us a scene of deep friendship . |
| 26 | When it did she made the coffee quickly and poured herself a cup . |
| 27 | ‘ And you 've been to Diss today and bought yourself a grin'stone ? ’ |
| 28 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 29 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |