Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They become very ill and need immediate intensive care in hospital with antibiotics given directly through a vein . |
| 2 | She reached up and pulled his head down , her lips parted expectantly for a renewal of his kisses . |
| 3 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 4 | New rules in s88 and Sch 8 Finance Act 1993 now restrict the usefulness of capital losses carried forward in a target company which is acquired by a capital gains tax group . |
| 5 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 6 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
| 7 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and Alyssia felt suddenly dizzy , as though the breath had been knocked out of her , then she regained her self-control , and replied politely , ‘ I 'll be down for lunch . ’ |
| 8 | Their eyes locked together for an instant , and she felt as though he was seeing right into her soul , into bits of her that no one had ever seen before . |
| 9 | He says that the kids pulled together as a team . |
| 10 | When the reader does not need to dwell upon decoding , then words encountered early in a sentence will not have been forgotten and will , therefore , be available for integration with the words at the end of the sentence . |
| 11 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 12 | Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials . |
| 13 | 1 a polymer molecule consists of a large number of identical monomer units strung together in a chain ( linear polymer ) or in some other geometrical arrangement , which may be quite a complicated three-dimensional one . |
| 14 | The almost blue water tumbled over myriad falls and drops like pearls strung together on a necklace , each one challenging but nowhere desperate . |
| 15 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 16 | In both cases however , decoration is extended in largely regular frameworks , with motifs distributed uniformly across a surface . |
| 17 | One of two silver cups found together with a set of wine-drinking utensils in a grave . |
| 18 | It was Macedo who brought together the Indians and Seringueiros ( rubber-tappers ) , communities kept apart by a century of violence and mistrust . |
| 19 | Open sprung mattresses are generally cheaper buys with the coil springs held together within a framework of wire . |
| 20 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 21 | Plump , foreshortened varicosed thighs in red bloomers floated upwards from a circle of clutching work-worn hands to a reception committee of gaping cherubim . |
| 22 | Open green pastures and the distinctive monoliths gathered together in a circle . |
| 23 | Figure 17 Votive offering at the Olmec ceremonial site of La Venta , Mexico , with stone figurines and jadeite blades arranged upright as a tableau . |
| 24 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
| 25 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 26 | He was in rumpled pyjamas , the trousers held together with a safety pin , but he had shaved and looked alert and cheerful . |
| 27 | If the adult plants are looking weary , then these can be removed , the severed stems picked over , the healthiest pieces bunched together with a strip of lead or piece of wire , and then replanted in the vacant baskets . |
| 28 | Use the ideas suggested here as a starting point . |
| 29 | THE leader of Scotland 's solicitors called yesterday for an end to piecemeal tinkering and urged on the Government a major review of the entire system of justice . |
| 30 | THREE conservation groups called yesterday for a boycott of Faroese fish in an attempt to halt the annual slaughter of pilot whales by the islanders . |