Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 2 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 3 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 4 | The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow . |
| 5 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 6 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | At the time I wondered how any improvements could be visual , when I learnt that players could ignore March winds and appear on the 1st tee in shirt and slacks . |
| 8 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 9 | If Bowe wins and opts for a first defence against veteran George Foreman , the WBC have confirmed they will strip him of the title and declare Lennox Lewis champion . |
| 10 | The cross is a masterpiece of red jasper , gold , gilded silver and jewels and dates from the eleventh or twelfth-centuries . |
| 11 | Details are not yet available , but one proposal is to establish regular deadlines for grant applications and to require for the first selection round a short summary of project proposals rather than the full 20-page application , as is now the case . |
| 12 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 13 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 14 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 15 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 16 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 17 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 18 | Copy these sets and write in the next three numbers that would fit in place of the dots at the end of each row . |
| 19 | I fetch water — an easy job , just grab a kettle , head for the cliffs and fill from the first stream you fall in — and offer it to Tor . |
| 20 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 21 | All traffic will be diverted down York Place , a one way street , and major changes are being planned to bus routes and stops during the next few days . |
| 22 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 23 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 24 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 25 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 26 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 27 | If you are not yet sure of your reply you should clear both fields and TAB to the next task mail message or leave the option . |
| 28 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 29 | Larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis injected into the skin migrate to the lungs and move from the third to the fourth stage of their life cycle . |
| 30 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |