Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 3 | He stroked the horse gently ; then letting his cloak fall softly to the ground , with one leap securely mounted him . |
| 4 | If they do not seem to be doing too well , or if you have seen all you want to see , let the collected animals free again in the pond or other place from which you first took them . |
| 5 | Just watch a Frenchwoman wiggle luxuriantly along the promenade and you see relaxed anticipation of a sensual beach banquet . |
| 6 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 7 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 8 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 9 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 10 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 11 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 12 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 13 | He watched the cashier ring through for a clearance and had been surprised when it was accepted . |
| 14 | Bellybutton had thrown off Starkisser 's lines and now let the sportsboat float away from the pontoon as he unclipped her jet-black cockpit cover . |
| 15 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 16 | He held onto the sides of the tub and let his legs float gently to the surface . |
| 17 | Jinkwa let his mid-plastron sink feebly to the ground in the manner of the aged and infertile . |
| 18 | ‘ Do their heads go right to the top of their helmets ? ’ |
| 19 | The laboratory has no money to pick up Charles Brown 's project , should AIDS arrive here with a vengeance , although it is currently collaborating with Speywood to adapt its conventional purification technology to human blood . |
| 20 | I see in today 's papers that Batty will be back in the team for tomorrow , does this mean that Wilko will drop Fairclough or Newsome or will he let Rocky go back to the bench and play essentially a back 6 ? |
| 21 | It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck . |
| 22 | While the local train gets the road and moves off , the Deltic moves on , again the familiar engines making the exhaust stand up into the dusk sky . |
| 23 | He 's letting all sorts go through at the moment . |
| 24 | How do the animals end up in the zoos ? |
| 25 | I saw Falconer go up to the top of the tower . |
| 26 | Think of letting your weight go evenly through the soles of your feet ( for balance ) . |
| 27 | The funnel described in this chapter makes the animals come out of the soil or leaves so that you can see what they look like and find out how many there are . |
| 28 | At the other end of the corridor Owen saw Ramses come out of a door . |
| 29 | ‘ God , though , it 's tempting , ’ William says , leaning back and letting Andy crane out over the pyramid of glasses again . |
| 30 | Koch resolutely stayed away from America 's wheel , letting Buddy Melges get on with the job of dispatching Conner . |