Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we played CBGB 's this guy who 's some sort of junior manager for Marvel came up afterwards and said he really liked the band and that it was a shit thing they sued us . ’ |
| 2 | A crash of thunder boomed so loudly that the floor shook . |
| 3 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 4 | This would not necessarily conflict with the picture of word-meaning developed so far if a single superordinate sense could be found which covered all the variants . |
| 5 | As all readers will appreciate , this change of course occurs quite frequently and sometimes has to be decided upon very quickly . |
| 6 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 7 | The copies of Vogue slipped slowly sideways and upwards , and disappeared into darkness … |
| 8 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 9 | The din was intolerable : overlapping dialogue in several languages , dowagers with laughter like painted nails down a blackboard , the endless rattle of the wheels , occasional gunshots , screams of unknown origin , the gravel-under-waves chink of piles of money turning over again and again , the shouts of losers . |
| 10 | Bur Briggs discovered that Sanskrit , an Indian language of meditation dating back more than 3,000 years , contained a grammatical structure identical to the languages being developed for NASA 's extensive artificial intelligence programme . |
| 11 | ‘ It was very muddled because she 'd pieced it together out of bits of gossip picked up here and there . |
| 12 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 13 | Baffling contradictions in the attitude of management happen more often that one might imagine . |
| 14 | It may be necessary to restructure the business before it is acquired ; the tax liabilities involved need to be assessed , and the position of management protected as far as possible . |
| 15 | I am grateful for my hon. Friend 's comments , because the significant fact about St. Ivel 's sponsorship is that it is a perfect example of sponsorship working very well and of the use of the business sponsorship incentive scheme , which I just mentioned . |
| 16 | This degree of modification comes about partly because of the greater degree of digestion in mammalian carnivores compared with the regurgitated remains from avian predators , and partly because of their use of teeth to break up prey before digestion . |
| 17 | New varieties of cotton grow more rapidly and quickly pass through their most vulnerable phase ( when the carpal surrounding the cotton is thin ) . |
| 18 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 19 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 20 | His speech to the country on January 16th on the outbreak of war proved yet again that the president is no orator . |
| 21 | Some conveyancers have been loath to prepare the package of documentation set out above because of market conditions . |
| 22 | You will find that ease of emphasis comes more readily if you are not standing stiffly to attention while delivering your speech . |
| 23 | ‘ A few years ago one of the old boys from Ham was doing a bit of rabbit poaching up here and a headless horseman went riding by as cool as you please . |
| 24 | One thing I will commend you for , it took a lot of ball to carry on even when you had lost the thread . |
| 25 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |
| 26 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 27 | External libraries Four of the six departments use external libraries although the amount of use ranges quite widely and the reasons for their use differ . |
| 28 | The meaning of democracy shifts even further once it is interpreted within the terms of the Calvinist principle of the Godly society , where it is the lot of the just to assume power and to guide the citizens in the paths of righteousness . |
| 29 | The information is needed for the compilation of trade figures as well as for VAT calculations . |
| 30 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |