Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 2 | Several fine enamelled objects were found scattered on the floor , either representing part of his stock or else intended for scrap . |
| 3 | The cake keeps well in a tin or tightly wrapped in foil and should be served sliced , buttered or with jam . |
| 4 | There was just feeling , wild and deep , intense pleasure that even bordered on pain , and Maggie 's head was on his shoulder , her eyes locked with his when he at last raised his head and looked down at her bewitched face . |
| 5 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 6 | Buid describe these feelings in terms of the soul rising up from the chest into the neck and issuing forth in bitter words or even violence if not held in check by the mind . |
| 7 | It was not until March 29 , five days after polling , that Peacock conceded defeat and immediately resigned as leader of the Liberal Party . |
| 8 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 9 | The cots were suspended from hooks attached to the roof and further secured in position by chains and springs , known as grips , which prevented them from swinging . |
| 10 | They are produced from flowers and other plants , are brewed with boiling water in the same way as tea and usually drunk without milk . |
| 11 | Known as the champagne tea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking . |
| 12 | She joined the King 's Fund 's then existing nursing college and later moved to director Jim Elliott 's new learning difficulties project . |
| 13 | The young pedlar cast him a wary glance and apparently decided on practicality over valour . |
| 14 | A story would be typed by a journalist and then cast into metal , usually lead , by compositors . |
| 15 | The savings come from less absenteeism , lower insurance costs , more productivity , fewer deaths ( Weis calls this ‘ much lower rates of worker mortality ’ ) , not so much deterioration in furniture , carpets and so on , including office machines , less maintenance and less spent on air-conditioning and heating . |
| 16 | In the Eighties , when everything was disposable , the scrap-yard was a car 's final resting place — a crude graveyard where dented hulks were crushed beyond recognition and then sent to landfill sites . |
| 17 | For the woman as sexual object , displayed as spectacle on the screen in Hollywood cinema , is not just a source of pleasure but also imbued with threat since her lack of a penis implies castration . |
| 18 | For some the occasion was a moving reminder of fallen friends , of youthful bravado that often ended in tragedy . |
| 19 | If ever a comparative survey of the I.Q. of the nations of the world was undertaken , there would be no particular surprise if we came top of the league table : It is as clear that we have the ability to solve our problems as to win the only battle that really counted in World War II — the last one ! |
| 20 | A current member of the Finance Committee although now retired from teaching . |
| 21 | July 2nd is the date for the best Barn Dance that ever swung into range from behind bales of hay . |
| 22 | The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes . |
| 23 | I fell out of a window and then relapsed into unconsciousness punctuated with severe but well-directed vomitings . |
| 24 | Balcha recovered , grew up as a page in Menelik 's household and later fought with distinction at Adua , where in 1896 the Abyssinians destroyed an Italian army . |
| 25 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 26 | The fjords are enclosed by bare rocky peaks which are totally impassable in the winter and still touched by snow , ice and glaciers in high summer . |
| 27 | The following day , the pressed cheeses are turned out of their tubs and the traditional cylindrical ‘ truckles ’ are wrapped in muslin and then dipped in wax . |
| 28 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 29 | She had been one of the founder members of the Institutional Management Association in Yorkshire and later involved herself additionally in the Hotel & Catering Institute and always kept in contact with the professional association throughout her career . |
| 30 | This is produced by injecting ready-made antibodies ( usually developed in the blood of another human or in a horse serum and suitably treated for injection purposes ) . |