Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
2 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
3 | In the midst of summer when you came out , your eyes burned with sunlight and your small meaty smooth arms and legs were stung by the pavement 's heat . |
4 | But whereas say something that happens say Well say take for example where I live in . |
5 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
6 | It was a little before midnight when they slipped out of the mill . |
7 | More common are vultures , especially in summer when they fly up from Spain to taste the carrion on the high pastures , and marmots , of which there are now more than 200 colonies after they were reintroduced here in 1948 . |
8 | It seems that , while she was married to Earl Spencer , she regularly had her lunch and her tea in one of her silk and antique negligees , gave orders that because the noise might disturb her , no-one should flush the loo before noon when she got up , and was forever tracing her finger around the furniture to make sure the servants had dusted properly . |
9 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
10 | It was even more surprised that night when two hundred grim-faced nomes tracked it to its earth , lit a fire in the entrance , and speared it to death when it ran out , eyes streaming . |
11 | But he appeared to be going nowhere during mid-season when he pulled up at Cheltenham in January with a broken blood vessel . |
12 | The problem is this : why is the reflex increase in urine flow so much smaller at night when we lie down to go to sleep ? |
13 | 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 . |