Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 2 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 3 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 4 | As the Principal and Vice-chancellor of Napier University , Professor William A Turmeau said to the packed courtyard at Merchiston : ‘ Our institution opened right here as Napier College in 1964 and this is a really great day , for all of us . |
| 5 | The car slowed only slightly as Julie drove through a deserted Berkeley square . |
| 6 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 7 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 8 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 9 | The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station . |
| 10 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 11 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 12 | Wendy feels the failure to conceive more keenly than Mark . |
| 13 | The shoots were pushing their heads above the ground even though the group was still able to claim record profits as late as January of this year . |
| 14 | Brown claimed it was himself and not Nicholas who was guilty of the assault adding somewhat implausibly that Charlie was ‘ pure as the driven snow ’ . |
| 15 | Just as he reached her , the Whale surged upwards again and Miles was caught by the wave . |
| 16 | As their cameras rolled , the film crew looked on anxiously while Crawford drove the Rolls up the ramp . |
| 17 | That ‘ political event of the decade ’ looked good on television , especially when the fireworks finale went off just as John Cole , the BBC 's political editor , went out live on the Nine O'Clock News , but it was a strangely soulless event to the 10,000 participants . |
| 18 | And the family fun shines through again when Paul 's stepdaughter Heather tries to climb on the car roof . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman knows full well that United States Government policy is a matter for the United States . |
| 20 | This explicitly materialist framework of contemporary neurophysiology originated much later than Aristotle . |
| 21 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 22 | While Brunner 's interpretation of Calvin was weak at many points — as Barth took a somewhat mischievous delight in pointing out — his claim to stand more clearly than Barth in the line of Calvin was not without foundation . |
| 23 | The policy enunciated as recently as August 1946 was now scrapped in December . |
| 24 | The lift carried on upwards and Juliet followed the other visitors into Hunter Ward . |
| 25 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 26 | The Operations Room door banged open again and Simpson burst out into the reception area , with Jimmy Devlin close behind him . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The door opened almost immediately and Jem appeared , without the shotgun this time . |
| 29 | The upheaval began once again when Isaac was born . |
| 30 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |