Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 2 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 3 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 4 | At other times he would come running in answer to her call to find her seated before the stove with her legs stretched out to the fire and her face softened by smiles . |
| 5 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 6 | It swims , with its legs tucked out of the way alongside its flanks , by sinuous movements of its body and by beating its tail . |
| 7 | There is a gem in the Heraklion Museum showing two rampant lions with their forepaws perched up on an altar : at the centre , in place of a pillar or some other representation of the deity , is an unmistakable rayed sun which , as we have already seen , is one of the manifestations of Poteidan ( Figure 44 ) . |
| 8 | The consolidated financial statements include those of the Company and all its subsidiaries made up to the end of the financial year . |
| 9 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 10 | It was explained to Sir Robert Armstrong that ‘ weasel words ’ are ‘ words empty of meaning , like an egg which has had its contents sucked out by a weasel . ’ |
| 11 | There was a flurry of constitutional activity between 1906 and 1914 , and the House of Lords had its powers cut back by the Parliament Act , 1911 , so formally putting the " balanced " constitution to rest . |
| 12 | This is why comic picture-postcards of the time show people at the seaside , paddling in the sea with their trouser-legs rolled up to the knee , or little girls with their dresses tucked into their knickers . |
| 13 | Most important of all , back on the pitch I learnt which customers did n't pay their debts and so could never be allowed to have their names chalked up on the slate . |
| 14 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 15 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 16 | The General Household Survey is a national representative continuous survey of UK households and their members carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) . |
| 17 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 18 | I 'm even more disappointed in the conservatives , for not opposing it , I do n't object to their list of members being published , I do n't see that that would do any harm , as far as I 'm concerned , every employee could have their wages printed up on the wall . |
| 19 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 20 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 21 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 22 | Armoured Hearthwares with red sashes belting their middles laboured on to the battlements with the defender 's weapons pounding them like smith 's hammers on an anvil . |
| 23 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 24 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 25 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 26 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 27 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 28 | Meredith was sitting in the stalls with his feet propped up on the row in front . |
| 29 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 30 | the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand . |