Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some had national flags flying from their rucksacks so we hung out a tiny Scottish Saltire . |
| 2 | A longer reading list is available from Age Concern England 's Information and Policy Department if you send in a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 3 | Home captain Andy Rhodes was in steady action after he punched over an opening effort by Ian McCall . |
| 4 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |
| 5 | My first clear memory is of sitting on the front of his horse as he galloped down a ploughed field , of the earth skittering and turning , and being safe in his arms . |
| 6 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 7 | The configuration of lights speed up , broaden , and throw different shadows into the car as I pull up a freeway ramp . |
| 8 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 9 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | But many borrowers choose an appealing discount deal as the sole criterion when they take out a loan . |
| 11 | Richard O'Flynn , a training partner of John Treacy 's with a personal best of 28:20 , made an early surge as we ran down an avenue of skyscraping cabbage palms . |
| 12 | A WOMAN was stung by a scorpion when she picked up a bunch of bananas in a supermarket . |
| 13 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 14 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 15 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 16 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 17 | The West Germans had not appeared to pose a threat to that plan until they wiped out a 2–0 deficit late in the second half of the quarter-final . |
| 18 | And the only other staff seems to be that young fellow in the kiosk , and I rather think he 's working for peanuts while he mugs up a thesis . ’ |
| 19 | The government-backed Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is to investigate the issue after it carried out a review of 50 recent reports on the longevity of CDs . |
| 20 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 21 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 22 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 23 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 24 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 25 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 26 | The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst . |
| 27 | The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses . |
| 28 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 29 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 30 | Pipe has achieved ever-increasing tallies in each of the 14 years since he took out a licence . |