Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Leicester to get the win that will keep them right up amongst the leading clubs . |
| 2 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 3 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 4 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 5 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 6 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 7 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 8 | Well we have yes , but some of those that have gone seem to be clawing their way back at the last minute erm Longeaton look to be saved again at very last knockings erm so of course Eastbourne has gone . |
| 9 | Gaily heaved and hitched himself up on to the high stool , shoving the bag of laundry between his feet once more . |
| 10 | ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool . |
| 11 | down here the fir , eighth year parents into the sixth of July and judging , working back from weeks that we 'll need to collect information it could bring you right back into the twelfth |
| 12 | The world seemed to tilt and spin and fold itself inside out in a volcanic eruption of pleasure … |
| 13 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 14 | On no , I was older then you see , I was er I was , they sent me straight back into the splitting shop . |
| 15 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 16 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 17 | He cleared the board then sat back , waiting , feeling himself go very still , as if something strange — something wholly out of the ordinary — were about to happen . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , I can not help wondering about the parcels , for that is something so out of the ordinary , and about the things which are now missing . |
| 19 | ‘ So I 'd have to pay for both lots when I bought them , even if I put one straight back into the next auction ? ’ |
| 20 | Every winter the gales of Cornwall lift granite slabs off sea walls and toss them willy-nilly on to the nearest road . |
| 21 | A nearby car blared its horn loudly and , to Jessamy 's intense relief , Julius seemed to get control over himself again very rapidly , steering them back on to a straight course . |
| 22 | This was no super-sixth-form with teachers guiding me smoothly on to the higher reaches of learning . |
| 23 | We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony . |
| 24 | The porter threw one venomous look at Ranulf , slammed the jack of ale down on the bench , grumblingly unlocked the postern door and led them out on to the white , dusty forest track which snaked between the trees down to Godstowe village . |
| 25 | Corbett just grinned over his shoulder and led them out on to the beaten track down to the village of Woodstock . |
| 26 | She shut herself in out of the drizzling rain , and expressed her delight with everything . |
| 27 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 28 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 29 | She crossed silently to the tree and swung herself up on to the nearest branch . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |