Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 . |
| 2 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 3 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 4 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 5 | And that was a delightful and most alarming sensation , when the long , airy arms of the West Wind reached down through the trees and caught him up , and the leaves were all shivering and clattering and trembling with her passing , and the straws danced before the house and the dust rose and flew about in little earth-fountains . |
| 6 | Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , never for a second was there any lifting in the murderous artillery blanket laid down by the cannon of the opposing sides , now nearly 4,000 strong . |
| 8 | Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago . |
| 9 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 10 | Which of us on finding our car aerial snapped off by a vandal have not momentarily wanted to do the same to his neck ? |
| 11 | More than 100,000 delirious members of the Clinton fan club turned out on the streets . |
| 12 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 13 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 14 | A faint smell of frying bacon drifted up from the kitchen . |
| 15 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 16 | This paper explores the social policy contexts of prevention , as developed in a research study carried out for the Department of Health ( Hardiker et al . , |
| 17 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 18 | The Rifleman stared at his enemy just as many of the crowd in the entrance hall stared up at the blood-soaked Rifleman . |
| 19 | Later in the year , when the poet Apollinaire came back from the war with a head wound , a grand banquet was held in his honour at the Palais d'Orléans in the Boulevard du Maine . |
| 20 | A piece of silver wrapping-paper rolled up into a tight ball , or the traditional ball of wool , provides the greatest reward . |
| 21 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 22 | Annabel units from Bernstein 's Misty Bedroom Range set up around the bed form an attractive alcove with a dressing table unit and cupboards . |
| 23 | A great deal of subsistence farming went on among the peasants . |
| 24 | The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence . |
| 25 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 26 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 27 | Something glassy and indistinct passed over Rincewind 's head , throwing up a cloud of ashes from the fire , and the pig carcass took off from the spit and rocketed into the sky . |
| 28 | The election for the governorship of the north western province of Catamarca , held on Dec. 1 , was won by Arnoldo Castillo , the candidate of the Civic and Social Front ( FCS ) , an opposition alliance made up of the Radical Party ( UCR ) , dissidents of the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ-the Peronists ) and other minority parties . |
| 29 | The snow buggy pulled up alongside a closed elevator door . |
| 30 | Some weeks later , the tocsin bell rang out throughout the fortress-monastery . |