Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be the very desk where she cut up all the little boys and ate them , after cooking them with slugs and snails and puppy dogs ' tails . |
| 2 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 3 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 4 | It is the place where we gather up all the experiences of life and think about them . |
| 5 | ‘ I imagine art school is a place where you sit up all hours putting the world to rights ? ’ |
| 6 | A PETROL station owner told last night how he fought off two masked youths who tried to snatch his takings . |
| 7 | erm , oh cut through over there I suppose I was thinking the other day when I worked out that money for Saturday is it , it came to something like two pound eighty when you had Jordan |
| 8 | SUDBURY Wanderers ' promotion hopes received a set back last night when they came off second best in a seven goal thriller at Hadleigh . |
| 9 | It makes use , again , of the growth hormone gene , and another gene which codes for an enzyme elastase , which is made in the pancreas and enters the stomach where it breaks down elastic tissue . |
| 10 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 11 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 12 | It is that time when I gather up all that has happened in my day , and all that is going to happen today . |