Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb base] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient 's lips , tongue or face take on a purply-bluish tint . |
| 2 | Every experience of childbirth is different , so the accounts by teenage mothers that follow illustrate just a few of these . |
| 3 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 4 | Grass and moss sprout along the grey-green ribs making the lead slippery . |
| 5 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 6 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |