Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 2 | If the sole purpose of bringing an action for a money claim is to obtain such consent , the particulars of claim need state the case only briefly and ask for approval ( Ord 10 , r 10 ) . |
| 3 | Now that you have had all four meetings with prospective purchasers I feel I should recap on the progress so far and set out how we move forward from here . |
| 4 | More non-enrollers than migrants said they intended to do a course in the future ( 63% compared with 40% ) and the non-enrollers were also much more likely to say they wanted to start the course very soon and had made enquiries about it . |
| 5 | The rules are read by the clerk of the course about 11.30am and admonish the riders to be gentlemanly , for ‘ any rider that holds or strikes another , will not win prize ’ , nor will he ‘ win prize ’ if he ‘ hinder or stop horse ’ . |
| 6 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |
| 7 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 8 | Kapil Dev was omitted from the following Test as a disciplinary measure , but returned to the side immediately afterwards and has been ever-present ever since . |
| 9 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 10 | He inserted the key almost furtively and stood in the small vestibule and smelt the place — floor polish mixed with the bitter scent of chrysanthemums in a blue bowl . |
| 11 | He put his hand to the switch just inside and turned the light on . |
| 12 | When the car bumped out on to the tarmac he swung the wheel hard across and turned the car around to face towards his chosen village . |
| 13 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 14 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 15 | She looked over to the window once more and heard the rain driving against the glass . |
| 16 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 17 | This allows you to monitor the work very carefully and help a group with a task that they might find very difficult if unsupervised . |
| 18 | World Cup organisers are reluctant to talk about security arrangements for next year , except to say they are treating the issue very seriously and seeking help and advice from foreign police forces . |
| 19 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 20 | Maud detached the girl rather roughly and gave her a shake . |
| 21 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 22 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |
| 23 | As she watched , the tall thin man in the butcher 's apron raised the cleaver once again and lopped off another part of the leg . |
| 24 | ‘ I am very far from saying that in every case in which a child is proving difficult to manage , a parent is entitled to strike the child so hard as to cause injuries of the kind in this case . |
| 25 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 26 | A hydrogen atom ( a ) is invaded by a muon , μ - ; ( b ) which orbits the proton more closely than does the electron . |
| 27 | ‘ You make the Scapegoat quite separately and tie it on afterwards ? ’ |
| 28 | Emily had been able to look them straight in the eye even then and say that Nan would cause no trouble . |
| 29 | When the dust had cleared that night following Genesis ' storming two-hour set in front of the party faithful , I stood in the foyer once again and reflected . |
| 30 | For this purpose I line the cone first with kitchen foil and then cover the outside with knitting , tying the point very firmly and finishing it with a tassel or small ‘ frill ’ . |