Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 2 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 3 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | But even then , there are massive periodic bills that come round every second generation — a major roof repair , a bit of bad luck like serious dry rot . |
| 5 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 6 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 7 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 8 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 10 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 11 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 12 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 13 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 14 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 15 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 16 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 17 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 18 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 19 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 20 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 21 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 22 | Mrs Mantini straightened up and puffed out a last breath of her garlic-and-onion lunch . |
| 23 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 24 | We climbed up again and rolled down a second time , Mom sighing and giggling again , again . |
| 25 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 26 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 27 | I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’ |
| 28 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't tempt me , ’ she said with a wry laugh , and picked up the next file . |
| 30 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |