Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 2 | Professor Ienaga pledged to fight the case right through to the Supreme Court . |
| 3 | The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation . |
| 4 | Scribbling changes in the margin of his text right up to the last minute , Mr Clinton insisted the burden of his new taxes were spread fairly across American society . |
| 5 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 6 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 7 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 8 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 9 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
| 10 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |
| 11 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 12 | Make-up effects and melodrama straight out of the 1920s Yiddish theatre ? |
| 13 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
| 14 | The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street , it was the parson making a bid for freedom . |
| 15 | Erm I think possibly just the trees themselves are we you know , th okay they 're olive trees , so they 're a little bit unusual , we do n't get too many olive trees growing in this country , but I 'm not so sure that they 're as er that attractive to make a , a photograph solely out of the olive trees . |
| 16 | Another point-less return really would leave them squinting for light deep down in the Second Division 's dark vale . |
| 17 | The Midlands will make one change against the South-West at Bath , recalling the England hooker Brian Moore , who has twice withdrawn from the side late on with a twisted knee . |
| 18 | Dyson peered down into the darkness after it , driving the car steadily out across the white line in the middle of the road . |
| 19 | Pull the dumb-bell slowly back to the overhead position , then breathe out . |
| 20 | And , who knows , perhaps one day in the future we will find further evidence from an even earlier date , to take the domestic cat right back to the very beginning of the Neolithic period , some ten thousand years ago . |
| 21 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 22 | His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through , stippling Goldman 's shoes with blood . |
| 23 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 24 | A shallow ramp , suitable for transporting wheelbarrows , will be provided from the waste land south of the Brunstane Bowling Green up on to the old railway embankment . |
| 25 | Women take the bite out out of a four-legged foe |
| 26 | Yashkin turned and went to the door , the small stamping machine now back in a small box and in his pocket . |
| 27 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |
| 28 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 29 | On the day that the Sinn Fein president Mr Gerry Adams lost his seat in West Belfast , the blast was being seen as a deliberate attempt by the IRA to place the Irish question firmly back in the political agenda . |
| 30 | THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda . |