Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 2 | The ace cyclist went along to the Glover 's Lane Surgery in Netherton to start a week of Health Promotion events . |
| 3 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 4 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |
| 5 | The SSL holds a core collection of material covering scientific and technical aspects backed up by the National Library 's other relevant collections such as official publications , legislation , and popular science items . |
| 6 | A lined mouth stretched back in a screech . |
| 7 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 8 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 9 | Great shafts of white after-rain light poured down from the edges of the clouds and soon the sun shone alone in a patch of blue , a weakening autumn sun . |
| 10 | The Duke was revelling in the occasion , his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy . |
| 11 | The North Korean delegation walked out of the eighth round of normalization talks with Japan , held on Nov. 5 in the Chinese capital Beijing . |
| 12 | The stuttering start , a last lap breakdown in Canada and the fiasco of Portugal , where his rear right wheel fell off after a pit stop , undermined his campaign . |
| 13 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 14 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 15 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 16 | The Righteous Brothers popped in for a swifty , as did Twin Peaks star Sherilyn Fenn . |
| 17 | Wooden balconies jutted out from the upper storeys , giving the plaza not only a feeling of space but of intimacy . |
| 18 | One popular route started off from the highly reactive unsaturated hydrocarbon , ethylene ( or ethene ) , H 2 C=CH 2 , which was readily and cheaply available from petroleum refineries . |
| 19 | Another five reluctant paired birds took off as the panic spread around the pond . |
| 20 | The entire high squadron went down with the exception of the leader . |
| 21 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |
| 22 | At the airport planes of astonishingly different sizes — like children 's toys on different scales mixed up in the same game queue to use the runway for take-off . |
| 23 | When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective . |
| 24 | In the near-total darkness Dong could not see the old coolie stretched out on the muddy floor beside them . |
| 25 | I tucked the binoculars into the holdall again and without any sensible plans wandered back towards the dining car . |
| 26 | Like the malarial swamps out of which the Most Serene Republic rose , we have seen that human altruism , communal feeling and social responsibility arose out of the egoistic , sadistic and erotic drives with which nature had endowed man . |
| 27 | This could have been accomplished through a special edition of The Register or accompanying literature sent out with the ballot papers . |
| 28 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 29 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 30 | Ethnic Serbian deputies walked out of the session , and formed on Oct. 24 the " Assembly of the Serbian Nation of Bosnia-Hercegovina " , fixing a plebiscite on remaining in Yugoslavia for Nov. 9 and 19 . |