Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |
| 2 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 3 | There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats . |
| 4 | Her eyes flew open just as his lips found the delicate curve of her neck . |
| 5 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 6 | Her ordeal ended as strangely as it began and without any apparent reason . |
| 7 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 8 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 9 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 10 | Her tears dried as suddenly as they had appeared . |
| 11 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 12 | Her pace slowed even more as she thought of the house dark and sour with grief . |
| 13 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 14 | However , John Howard , an official of their union commented as early as November 1985 that the HMI of Mines feared that the proposed new mining legislation would reduce the power of the HMI whilst raising the power of the colliery manager , who could decide what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ ( Labour Research 1988a ) . |
| 15 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 16 | Their hands touched more often than seemed necessary . |
| 17 | While the ability of organised skilled workers to restrict entry to their trade and to develop defensive strategies probably means their wages rose more sharply when the economy turned up , and fell less quickly on the downturns , this would have the effect of flattening fluctuations rather than of misdirecting trends . |
| 18 | Behind they heard the death screams of the abandoned mules , and their steeds accelerated even more whilst the grey ghosts of Murtach 's wolves darted beside them at an impossible speed . |
| 19 | Her speech went as well as was possible , given that it was being made on the stickiest of sticky Parliamentary wickets . |
| 20 | The National Trust , Friends of the Lake District and the National Parks have put into practice many of Green 's ideas , but the extent of his plans went even further than these and might well be worth looking at again . |
| 21 | In fact , every Stewart king between 1424 and 1542 was able to make his presence felt abroad precisely because he could impose it so effectively at home . |
| 22 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 23 | Archer 's expression was grim , his mouth closed tight briefly as it came flooding back to him . |
| 24 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 25 | She swayed towards him , wanting to feel his skin against hers , but his mood changed as swiftly as the wind and he pulled the gown round her roughly , his eyes as cold as stones . |
| 26 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
| 27 | Craig 's is an untypically simple case inasmuch as his surplus arose as early as the second count and was disposed of in the third . |
| 28 | His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 . |
| 29 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 30 | Thereafter , his form fluctuated as irregularly as his training and his domestic affairs . |