Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took my arm and we walked on together past the schoolboy eyes . |
| 2 | The latest published figures for Lloyd 's show £575m ( $950m ) of pre-tax profit in 1987 ( Lloyd 's syndicates close their accounts only after three years ) , down slightly on the record profits of 1986 . |
| 3 | Epilepsy has now come in ahead of the field thanks to the ingenuity and determination of During and Spencer at Yale . |
| 4 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 5 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 6 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 7 | We shall pass through there to the city docks . ’ |
| 8 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 9 | We set off again along the gravel paths . |
| 10 | A jackhammer started up somewhere beyond the prison walls . |
| 11 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 12 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 13 | Even up here in the wood miles away from the class-room Philip felt his face burn at the way he 'd made a fool of himself . |
| 14 | This experienced man 's disquiet stemmed from the fact that the taking of a statutory sample , while visible in the organization , is ( as he saw it ) a potentially inefficient use of an officer 's time , and the pressure to take a formal sample to show up well in the league tables placed an improper constraint on the discretion necessary to do the job efficiently . |
| 15 | And , and the highway police are up there with the state police , they can go anywhere within the state , yeah ? |
| 16 | ‘ God , that would turn a few of them over in their graves up there under the yew trees , ’ Benny 's father had said , but again there was no explanation of why . |
| 17 | Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families . |
| 18 | I think that 's a a lamentable state of affairs , and their children , and their children 's children are going to have to pay the price for the short-sightedness that 's going on now in the ivory towers of the of the city , the the banking institutions and the financial institutions of the country . |
| 19 | Storm waves produced in open oceans travel on far from the storm centres with velocities which depend on wave length , the longer the wave length the higher the velocity , and on the height of the waves , the lower the waves the less readily they are damped out . |
| 20 | To look to look back further to the sailing boats , no doubt would be to recall an even busier village . |
| 21 | They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months . |
| 22 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 23 | They used to camp out there in the summer holidays . ’ |
| 24 | I hurried back softly to the basement stairs . |
| 25 | And then er that was that till Saturday evening , especially in the winter , then you went back again for the evening rounds . |
| 26 | A far more impressive performance was turned in by Katabatic , who defeated three rivals in the Aintree Chase and may be seen out again before the season ends . |
| 27 | The Welsh miners are upset about something , hanging about menacingly at the pit gates . |
| 28 | When the dinosaurs at last died off they could , for the first time , roam about increasingly in the daylight hours . |
| 29 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 30 | THE LIGHTS will soon go on again in the memorial gardens at Walton on the Naze , following a dispute between Tendring District Council , Frinton and Walton branch of the Royal Air Forces Association , and Walton 's Royal British Legion about the cost of floodlighting . |