Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 2 | Do I need my glasses on for this book ? |
| 3 | Could I carry my miles over from one year to the next ? |
| 4 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 5 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 6 | The end product could be a jointly-owned network ( unless the Reagan administration decides , instead , to sell its satellites off to private enterprise ) . |
| 7 | He wo n't be ready till next season , but I 'm really going to knock their eyes out with this fellow . ’ |
| 8 | Behind dosed doors Diana cried her eyes out with nervous exhaustion . |
| 9 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 10 | Wardens in tin helmets poked their noses out of sandbagged alarm posts to watch Charles and his CO striding by . |
| 11 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 12 | Most of Yugoslavia 's main cities can trace their origins back to Roman foundation or , where earlier settlements can be identified , to a revival of activity in Roman times . |
| 13 | She sauntered back to the view and Miss Blandish , but swept her sunglasses on with instinctive irritation as she saw a figure on the next balcony . |
| 14 | Ca n't , ca n't please their youngsters out of thirty pound shirts |
| 15 | ‘ Happy Game ’ , for instance , has a chorus about celebrating the end of an unhappy relationship , a state of affairs that in ‘ Immigrants … ’ days would have seen the band crying their guitars out at high speed for three minutes or so . |
| 16 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 17 | Yeah Wonder why the police car put its lights on at that moment . |
| 18 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 19 | Unfortunately it is also associated with an ‘ illusion of competence ’ effect which leads those employing interviews to value the quality of their decisions out of all proportion to their probable true worth . |
| 20 | She put the ladder up against the stone wall of the cottage , gathered her skirts up in one hand and started to climb . |
| 21 | All it needs to do therefore is to stay with its arms out in one place , photosynthesize , and avoid being eaten until it has managed to reproduce . |
| 22 | So you 'd leave the Trust Law in existence , so you would n't call cause a total legal revolution , but you would impose on that a spy of legal requirements which if trusts wish to through Trust Law enhance , they could , but they h all have to bring their agreements up to that minimum ? |
| 23 | Stretching her arms out on either side to steady herself , she clung to the edge of the cockpit . |
| 24 | The content of their syllabuses was largely , though indirectly , in the hands of the universities , through the local examination boards , and it was assumed that a good school , even if comprehensive , would manage to get a reasonable number of O and A level passes and send a proportion of its pupils on to higher education . |
| 25 | Helping these children to adapt to their environment is therefore important , and putting their symptoms down to poor mothering , without any evidence , is irresponsible and potentially damaging . |
| 26 | My constituent concludes : ’ The present government wants education standards to be improved but in the case of students , it will only result again in the rich' families being able to afford to send their children on to further education . |
| 27 | Nevertheless a 1914 government report cited the case of a woman found guilty of cruelty for locking her children up in one room while she went out to work for 10/ a week . |
| 28 | She nodded , and tugging her clothes back into some sort of order , she went to the door . |
| 29 | IT 'S been a long time since Sister Jacques-Marie took her clothes off for public viewing . |
| 30 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |