Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 2 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 3 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 4 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 5 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 6 | Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away . |
| 7 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 8 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 9 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 10 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 11 | She strode confidently along a featureless corridor and followed it round a bend . |
| 12 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
| 13 | The doctor picked up his silver pen and hovered it over a blank sheet . |
| 14 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 15 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 16 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 17 | Anyway he is 24 , is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit . |
| 18 | Lick your toe and wave it around a bit . |
| 19 | With a disconsolate sigh she stood up , slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair . |
| 20 | Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way |
| 21 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 22 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 23 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 24 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |
| 25 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 26 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 27 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 28 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 29 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 30 | Again er even frosting blast when even other trees er specific trees are erm alright , it may have been caught in that draught and set it back a little , you never know . |