Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do the animals end up in the zoos ? |
| 2 | Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago . |
| 3 | He heard the girl run back down the steps and her footsteps faded in the distance . |
| 4 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 5 | lets hope scum go down for the geordies tomorrow ( match of the day in norway ) ! ( hmm — my futba-english justs keeps improving does n't it ; - ] ) |
| 6 | Stopping on the lonely road , I watched the sun go down in the trees behind Thornfield , and then in the silence I heard a horse approaching . |
| 7 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 8 | But how does the cake divide up for the punters ? |
| 9 | Why could n't Wilson stand up to the allies , why could n't had stand up to Clements or Lloyd George , in particular ? |
| 10 | When will the BBC wake up to the possibilities open to it when covering the biggest annual golfing event to take place in Europe . |
| 11 | Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls . |
| 12 | So long as Americans pay outrageous sums for cocaine , traffickers will continue to let enough crumbs trickle down to the farmers to make growing coffee or citrus an unattractive alternative . |
| 13 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |
| 14 | Motoring : Can R-R keep up with the times ? |
| 15 | There 's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday . |
| 16 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 17 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 18 | Chopra watched the bird fly up to the heavens . |
| 19 | Well I of course re I was only seven years old , so really I only , I only saw the , the hearse go by with the mourners . |