Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's hanging on my bike in the yard , inside a roll of lino . ’ |
| 2 | I have never had the chance to put properly my side of the story . |
| 3 | Perhaps my reputation as a coureur emasculates Stuart . |
| 4 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 5 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 6 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 7 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 8 | With only her voice as a clue , I had spent the afternoon ransacking the village for elegant snacks and found them : madeleines , ratafias , petits fours . |
| 9 | Surely she is not suggesting that only her side of the case should have been put . |
| 10 | ‘ Papa , tell Belle Maman that if she looks at the baby like that , I shall get only her hat in the picture … ’ |
| 11 | If , at the time of any incident which results in a claim under this policy , there is any other insurance covering the same liability , loss or damage , General Accident will pay only its share of the claim . |
| 12 | If , at the time of any incident which results in a claim under this policy , there is any other insurance covering the same liability , loss or damage , General Accident will pay only its share of the claim . |
| 13 | This manager stuffed money down their throat under the guise of being their friend and adviser . |
| 14 | Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically . |
| 15 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 16 | Obviously their contact in the family tipped them off ! ’ |
| 17 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 18 | The king took from the Persians only their attack on the constitution of 1812 ; the project for a Cortes was ‘ lost ’ in the unsympathetic deliberations of the Council of Castile . |
| 19 | The political weakness of the liberals reflected not only their fear of the threat from below but also the profound divisions within the middle classes . |
| 20 | If it had been implemented they would have lost not only their control over the peasantry but also virtually all authority in provincial affairs . |
| 21 | In the case of the mid-seventeenth century we find groups of current historians who share social and frequently explicit political assumptions identifying themselves with right and left , and often implicitly acknowledging that their own political agendas dictate not only their naming of the past but their unhappiness with opposing critical orientations . |
| 22 | Nicola paraded along its edge like a tightrope walker . |
| 23 | It seemed to set it off , to trigger it , for as it slipped along her skin like a bead of ice , a huge pain took hold of her left arm , as if an iron claw had grasped it . |
| 24 | Then panic struck , as the red saloon veered towards her , running along her side of the road , accelerating rapidly . |
| 25 | Once cast off from the submarine they began the steady rhythm of paddling that took them along their course with a mile and a half to the beach , their sweat-raising stroke giving 3 knots — equal to a steady walking pace . |
| 26 | The Monster scowls and a green tongue emerges that is altogether too long and snakelike ; green slurry flows down its chin into the plastic bibdish . |
| 27 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 28 | In 1954 the US Supreme Court , headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren , handed down its decision in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka , Kansas . |
| 29 | And they make an attractive alternative to fencing for the boundaries of their confined plot , while a narrow , curving lawn helps to lead the eye down its length to the summerhouse , bog garden and pools at the bottom . |
| 30 | Over the river , the banners glinted red over the fort , and the long line of its shadow began to creep down its rock to the east . |