Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I frightened the cat and down dropped the little bird ; it was bleeding from the beak and did not move except its legs in a spasm of pain . |
| 2 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
| 3 | I pulled the knob and out came a circular weight covered in purple velvet . |
| 4 | The situations of the two antiheroes are similar : both men rejected by a hypocritical social order and about to meet an unnoticed death by water.Just as , in his murder scene , Berg heightens the tension by building his music round a single repeated note ( B ) , so here Britten touches on the same procedure , using a held F sharp for the momentous dialogue between Ellen and Balstrode ( which also partly explains the curiously inert harmonies of Ellen 's song " Embroidery in childhood " ) . |
| 5 | THE ARRIVAL of a live album usually comes with a tacit admission that a band are either low on new material or about to suffer an imminent career flop and need one last cash-in . |