Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd just started walking down a narrow street outside the club when all suddenly a taxi hit Michael and knocked him down . |
| 2 | Their first division place , their future was riding on the game and sure enough the Cherry and Whites rose to the challenge . |
| 3 | I felt along the ledge at the top of the door and sure enough the key was there . |
| 4 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |
| 5 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 6 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 7 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 8 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 9 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 10 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 11 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 12 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 13 | At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt . |
| 14 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 15 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |