Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swings moved gently back and forth . |
| 2 | If the Panzers come through here before we have sufficient equipment ashore , you and I and every bastard in this Brigade have had it , including Lovat . ’ |
| 3 | Already the flames showed up vividly though there was no other indication of the failing light . |
| 4 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 5 | The courts decided readily enough that in this instance the offence is one requiring proof of mens rea ; ‘ the gist of the offence to my mind lies in the intention with which the thing is done , ’ as Darling J. put it . |
| 6 | Still , though the English and the Germans sent hardly more than 10 per cent of their net demographic increase abroad , in absolute numbers this was a very large contingent . |
| 7 | She picked up one of the coins to look more closely and , in doing so , sent a ten pence piece spinning and rolling against the floorboards . |
| 8 | Be alright if one of the birds turn up here and you say oh hello Florence , oh no I 'm not Florence I 'm Zebedee . |
| 9 | Yet the plans go ahead relentlessly and so on . |
| 10 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 11 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 12 | The scrums started well enough but when hooker Kenny Milne was injured and replaced by Corcoran the problems started . |
| 13 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 14 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 15 | What was happening , and why did the super-powers collide just here and just now ? |
| 16 | The fingers move gently in and start to tickle it or rub its face and then , without warning , grab it and pick it up . |
| 17 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 18 | During their three hours off duty that night the pennies disappeared more quickly than the queue , but Tommy somehow continued to get better value for money than any other recruit . |
| 19 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 20 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 21 | The eyes narrowed even more and became inverted and reddish ; the mouth thinned and slavered ; there was the white gleam of teeth , pointed and dripping with saliva … |
| 22 | And indeed the anthropomorphism of the sociobiologists goes much further than that since they regularly employ a language which derives directly from the ideology of twentieth-century capitalism : investment , costs , benefits are central elements in their vocabulary . |
| 23 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 24 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 25 | The Hussites held out successfully until , in 1436 , an agreement was reached which allowed them to consolidate their achievements . |
| 26 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 27 | Thirst is a more imperative drive , intruding into dreams even when the subjects know full well that they are merely taking part in an experiment , and that water will be available in the morning . |
| 28 | At the next European Council these draft texts should be finalized according to the guidelines worked out there and in keeping with the European Council 's conclusions of Oct. 27-28 , 1990 , recalling the UK reserve attached thereto [ when the Eleven agreed on January 1994 as the starting date for " stage two " of EMU — see p. 37783 ] . |
| 29 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 30 | As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament . |