Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 2 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 5 | A police car streaked by on the relatively traffic-free side of the M4 , its siren 's wail mournful , and the flashing light replaced the sodium yellow filling the car taking my mind to another time . |
| 6 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |
| 7 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 8 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 9 | The sun shone out of a mockingly blue sky . |
| 10 | The old guard hit back at the newly formed , broad-based Union of Democratic Forces , which is organising tomorrow 's demonstrations . |
| 11 | In 1965 the young Cooder teamed up with the equally young Taj Mahal in a band called The Rising Sons . |
| 12 | The success of The Body Shop grew out of an almost naïve belief in herself and sheer hard work . |
| 13 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 14 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 15 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 16 | Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge ? |
| 17 | One popular route started off from the highly reactive unsaturated hydrocarbon , ethylene ( or ethene ) , H 2 C=CH 2 , which was readily and cheaply available from petroleum refineries . |
| 18 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 20 | As a result the paper came out with the most terrifying remarks allegedly made by Baldwin about some of the political figures of the day , notably Beaverbrook , but also Lloyd George and others . |
| 21 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 22 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 23 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 24 | After a few years , the Earl settled down to a more responsible way of life as a serious politician , Rector of Glasgow University , Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Viceroy of Ireland . |
| 25 | ‘ A few more minutes to go , ’ she said , her face cheerful beneath dark hair scraped back into a rather severe French roll . |
| 26 | The misguided enthusiasm spilt over into the most prestigious of journals . |
| 27 | The Pizza Express London league got off to an early start this year with a shortened programme . |
| 28 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 29 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 30 | As he did so , a black gloved hand shot up through the suddenly exposed gap and rammed a razor sharp six-inch blade hilt-deep under his ribcage . |