Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 2 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 3 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 4 | CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 6 | The manager , who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects , saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 7 | Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure . |
| 8 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 9 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 10 | The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls . |
| 11 | That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many . |
| 12 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 13 | The situation reaches fever pitch in a bizarre climax in which the characters ' cries and laughter ring out through the hot , humid air of the bayou , where men and women wage yet another round in the tug of war between love and lust , innocence and experience . |
| 14 | Members agree that proposal continue on in the ideal although it was commendable to set high standards . |
| 15 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 16 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 17 | The throat-constricting landscapes , the classical-statue cinematography , the orchestrated flesh-mangling , and the fly-blown soundtrack add up to a unique and hugely influential whole . |
| 18 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 19 | He had seen the floor open up underneath him , and he had watched the body drop down into the black hole below . |
| 20 | to wind and rain whip in to the lonely , misplaced town . |
| 21 | It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river . |
| 22 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 23 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 24 | Plans to build a display hangar on the NAM site go back to the early 1980s . |
| 25 | Buildings on the site go back to the eleventh-century , when the town hall , the Broletto Vecchio , of the free city of Milan stood here . |
| 26 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 27 | In fact , the origins of the Geneva conference go back to the international chemistry conference held in Paris in 1889 . |
| 28 | Few are in any doubt that there is plenty more pain to come , and it may well be that the interim management is now expected to clear the decks , steel itself to announce another enormous net loss for the current quarter and let the new chief executive and team come in with a clean sheet . |
| 29 | As the model rolls from inverted to normal flight , move the throttle stick back to the normal position . |
| 30 | Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable . |