Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 2 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 3 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 4 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 5 | When I had finished , her abdomen was lifted high and nipped in like a wasp-waisted Victorian lady of fashion . |
| 6 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 7 | He decided to be generous and went in to the shop . |
| 8 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 9 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 10 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 11 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 12 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 13 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 14 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 15 | The second Lady Deverill , also riding side-saddle and turned out in a quite immaculate habit , pulled up alongside Artemis on a bay Artemis had n't seen before . |
| 16 | Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip . |
| 17 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 18 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 19 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 20 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 21 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 22 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 23 | The nice young man could n't argue with that ; I paid the £25 extra and hurried out of the shop before he found a cheap white one . |
| 24 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service . |
| 26 | After he stabbed the girl Cook told her he was sorry and ran out of the shop . |
| 27 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 28 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 29 | His buddy did n't seem too concerned about that and reached down for the big gun . |
| 30 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |