Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Did he get on with the other paediatric S.H.O. , Dr Armitage ? ’ |
| 3 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 4 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 5 | Curtain up in a grand old Belfast tradition |
| 6 | As these winds fail the mass of ocean water that is piled up in the far western Pacific ( where the sea level is several centimetres higher than in the east ) comes flooding back . |
| 7 | Managers line up in the good old Miss World tradition as their units ' achievements — sales figures to you and me — are read out in reverse order and the best one is presented with a sash . |
| 8 | We used his PA system which was a bit ramshackle , but it worked — that was the main thing — and about 25 people turned up in the little mock Tudor , oak panelled dining room that was part of The Three Tuns pub in Beckenham . |
| 9 | The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 10 | Then she came back later on in a wee Royal Stewart tartan skirt and did Wee Modest Crimson Tippet Floo'er and Tae A Moose and some of the other Guid Auld Scots Favourites . |
| 11 | The car , a Sierra , had been stolen on Thursday night from nearby Bilsdale Close and neighbouring forces have been alerted to look out for a stolen blue Ford Orion , registration number H814 FYM , which may also have been used in connection with the incident . |
| 12 | WIND and rain greeted golfers who turned out for the annual Good Friday match between Tayside Region and Aberdeen District at Forfar Golf Club . |
| 13 | They were all sat on the floor of one of the sparsely-furnished bedrooms , the curtains drawn , watching East Enders on a black-and-white telly , and they were eating Greek yoghurt out of a communal family-sized Sainsbury 's tub . |
| 14 | Ah bring us number seven out of the seven good God bring me number seven excuse me |
| 15 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 16 | Running out , he was back in a dark antagonistic Holland with a saviour he had forgotten , who said , ‘ I am the Light . ’ |
| 17 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |