Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visit to the Whitbread Hop Farm is a unique experience enabling you to encounter a historical part of the Garden of England and delight in the atmosphere of this famous piece of Kentish Heritage . |
| 2 | Blind off the sub-base with a layer of coarse sand allowing it to fill the remaining holes . |
| 3 | The Crown Princess of Jordan opened an exhibition of his work saying it captured the real colour of life . |
| 4 | Anybody can can spend other people 's money and and as for that lady saying we want the young people on the Council good heavens the young ones would spend it quicker than the old ones . |
| 5 | ‘ Why are you wasting your precious money paying me to look an absolute fool on your behalf , Roman ? ’ |
| 6 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 7 | Scott 's urgent pleas to the Prince Regent , the future King George IV , had resulted in a Royal Warrant permitting him to open the sealed Crown Room in search of the Scottish crown , sceptre and sword of state — the ancient Honours of Scotland , locked away since 1707 following the Treaty of Union . |
| 8 | If you want to go sailing , play volleyball or have a round of mini golf it wo n't cost you a penny and the kids can be left in the Pirates Club while you spend the afternoon doing things you want to do … but you may have a job persuading them to leave a few hours later . |
| 9 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 10 | If we had known that our ceaseless lionisation of El Kylo would one day result in a pop band saying they preferred the raging sexy raunch of her latest single to the droning early-'70s lard-rock of The Cure ! |
| 11 | Meanwhile , much smaller North West neighbour Liverpool is looking to continue building up domestic and regional aviation-related business following its becoming the first local authority-owned airport to transfer from the public to private sector when it was bought by British Aerospace in 1990 . |
| 12 | ‘ But will he if the person facing him has the same weapon ? |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't lie to me any more ! ’ she raged , despair lending her anger a malicious knife . |
| 14 | But the dog , toad between teeth , jaws primed to gnash , began to foam , in spurts , like a washing machine , and dropped the beast on its uneven back leaving me to confront the hideous creature putting itself to rights . |
| 15 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 16 | pressing it twice , so the lea , bu , you know , the less button pressing you do the better . |
| 17 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 18 | Tuesday there was a brochure advertising something called The Magic Realist Book Club and an introductory offer for the record . |
| 19 | For non-slide playing I prefer a light set : 11 to 52 . |
| 20 | The style is emotive but the intellectual understanding informing it has an astringent clarity which is very moving . |
| 21 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 22 | The following month the legal process smiled more kindly on Charlie Nicholas when a three year drink driving ban was shortened by a year allowing him to buy a new £11,000 Porsche . |
| 23 | Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing . |
| 24 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |
| 25 | Some companies now include a clause on the envelope stating they offer a special service under which they accept extra liability for a higher price . |
| 26 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 27 | Every day a compromise is effected on the ground that the party making it has a fair chance of succeeding in it , and if he bona fide believes he has a fair chance of success he has a reasonable ground for suing , and his forbearance to sue will constitute a good consideration . |
| 28 | Ownership of this asset accordingly conferred unchallengeable power and influence on a comparative minority , while at the same time working it gave the overwhelming majority of the population their livelihood . |