Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 2 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 3 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 4 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 5 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 6 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 7 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 8 | The method will depend on the variety so look out for a good reference book , such as Pruning by Christopher Brickell , £7.99 , Mitchell Bleazley — part of The Royal Horticultural Society 's Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardening series . |
| 9 | In a fierce , raw and , at times , downright nasty battle , Barnes led his besieged troops to glory only to hit out in a variety of directions afterwards . |
| 10 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 11 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 12 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 13 | The car eventually pulled away from the kerb and drove after the F40 . |
| 14 | While Hazel gazed , the wind slowly veered round into the west , as Cowslip had said it would , and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole . |
| 15 | The explanation is relatively straightforward ; the glucose slowly diffuses out of the capillary into the surrounding liquid , creating a gradient of sugar concentration . |
| 16 | Clear perspex sheet behind the terraces prevents gravel eventually seeping out between the bricks . |
| 17 | Histamine secretion alone differed significantly among the groups . |
| 18 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 19 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 20 | As the through neck naturally runs parallel to the body , the bridge and pickups all sit square , too , making for a concise and geometrically consistent look and feel . |
| 21 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 22 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 23 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 24 | Another example of this is an extract already discussed above in the section on " mid-turn switches " . |
| 25 | Building on the work of the Japan Industrial Studies Programme already carried out at the Policy Studies Institute , the aim is to find out how Japanese managers , especially those in companies that are competing in the British market , see marketing and how they succeed in putting their strategies into effect . |
| 26 | However , as I said , the industry broadly goes along with the CITB 's proposals and with this order , which embodies them . |
| 27 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 28 | Decor in the aquarium was to consist of plastic plants of Jungle Vallis and Amazon Swordplants , the Vallis going around the edges of the aquarium along with small Amazon Swords with a large one as a centre piece just placed slightly to the left of the centre . |
| 29 | When he first advocated these ideas Hare largely went along with the view of most attitudinists that a correct account of the meaning of ethical language has no definite implications as to what moral views one should take . |
| 30 | His candidacy thus went forward to a second round run-off scheduled for June 3 , in which his opponent would be an unexpected late entrant Alberto Keinya Fujimori , 52 , of the newly formed Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement who received 24.62 per cent of the vote . |