Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
2 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
3 | Well there were running boards , they were , they were written out , well eventually , we were typed out but they were written out and first of all it was really funny we used to size them on to these wooden boards , let that dry , then varnish them and that board was used day in day out . |
4 | Interviewed by the Irish Independent , she said : ‘ Any man would be mad to take me on with all these children . |
5 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
6 | Now that does bring me on to another important issue , and this is the definition of integrated er and balanced community . |
7 | by jotting them down on this hurtling train |
8 | Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft . |
9 | A successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to write , briefly and intelligibly , the basic forms of office correspondence and the ability to understand and use them along with most usual forms of information displayed . |
10 | I 've a heavy afternoon ahead , and I 'm off to Paris tomorrow — by parachute if they ca n't get me in by any other method . |
11 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
12 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
13 | We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull . |
14 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
15 | She handed them over without any further argument . |
16 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
17 | ‘ What doing ? ’ he said , blowing himself up like those funny birds . |
18 | In a letter to all white collar and manual workers , chief executive Roger Davies is asking the over-50s to consider an early retirement scheme under which up to ten added years benefits are being offered if people agree to go before June 25 . |
19 | Features of the micro-driven GC include : a memory card system on which up to 25 user-created applications can be stored ; a GC oven and valve block ; wide bore capillary GC columns encapsulated in a novel isothermal oven ; and pre-column backflush . |
20 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
21 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
22 | Mark Tollerton started them off with two early goals , then Billy Neill , Jim Joy and Mark Dunwoody settled the affair . |
23 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |
24 | Beaming , he waves me off into another wintry shower . |
25 | It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me , and sent me off in two different directions at once . |
26 | Oh I 've got you down as sixty two dear . |
27 | You may not want to go to all this trouble so I 'll let you in on another easier method of finding some good swims . |
28 | He saved you from the clutches of that greasy little man by carrying you off to that back room — ’ |
29 | Surely your mother did n't bring you up with such poor values . |
30 | In nineteen seventy , if I take you back to twenty three years ago , County recorded in the outline development plan the following and I quote growth in the town not accompanied by measures to alleviate the traffic problems in the existing road network would merely add to the deterioration in the quality of the environment in the town and without such measures no further expansion is environmentally acceptable unquote . |