Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asda may have helped a number of youngsters make up their minds this year with their special offer on Lichfield aftershave lotion . |
| 2 | ‘ My daughter is twenty-eight , you know , quite capable of looking after herself without her parents breathing down her neck all the time . ’ |
| 3 | Several Sampdoria substitutes and officials leapt off their seats next to the dug-out , hurdled the board and jostled the England midfielder . |
| 4 | Woodlice were miniature armadillos ; tomato-coloured mites scampered on the walls as if the brick was burning their feet ; herds of striped and chequered snails glued up their doorways each autumn ; and sluggish , fragile caterpillars , irritatingly , mummified themselves during the one interesting period of their lives . |
| 5 | Nevertheless she spent her spare time preparing for his possible return , practising singing the songs he used to like , tears rolling down her cheeks all the while . |
| 6 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 7 | ( Could 10,000 men take up their positions undetected ? ) |
| 8 | The much higher propensity of specialists to carry on their studies this way further reinforces the view of some employers ( 1 ) that conversion courses add to the stock of those with IT skills in a way that the specialist streams do not . |