Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the Preface to the Wessex edition Hardy described how the music books of the choir were handwritten , hymns and psalms at the front , dances and ballads at the back ‘ till sacred and secular met together in the middle , often with bizarre effect ’ . |
| 2 | Out in the car park , Lucy handed over the car keys to Virginia and wedged herself into the passenger-seat , glancing rather apprehensively at Virginia as they accelerated slightly too fast out of the car park . |
| 3 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 4 | As soon as she got into the house , Molly ran up the stone stairs to the kitchen tap before she switched on the light . |
| 5 | Early advice from the DOH set out the quality aspects that contracts should seek to ensure . |
| 6 | Cornelius switched on the windscreen wipers . |
| 7 | Ruth went down the stone stairs that curved to the ground floor and followed the archways that led to an inner courtyard that might have been uncomfortably hot but was tempered by a cool fountain that arced water over a frolicking marble dolphin and child below . |
| 8 | Had Purcell composed only the string parts , leaving the trumpet parts to be added later ? |
| 9 | Léonie plucked out the brass weights from their deep plush-lined nests in the wooden box . |
| 10 | Professor Hoskins picked out the redbrick farmhouses of Leicestershire as perhaps his favourite . |
| 11 | Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck " |
| 12 | She allowed Margaret Seymour-Strachey to bring in the tea things and set them out on the bedside table without speaking further . |
| 13 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 14 | Aunt Emily was not exactly ill , at least she had no definable complaint , but she rested a good deal , more and more , and every day seemed happier to let Alexandra take over the household decisions . |
| 15 | Sara walked down the terrace steps into the garden proper . |
| 16 | A little tremulously , Sara switched on the wall sconces in the hall . |
| 17 | Maxim switched on the car lights . |
| 18 | Terry Miller picked up the Grantley Times . |
| 19 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | LUCRETIA STEWART asks why the killing fields strike so deep a chord |
| 21 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 22 | Section 2.10 also describes how the LIFESPAN Manager and the VAX System Manager can use LIFESPAN_SHUTDOWN.COM to shut down the LIFESPAN Processes when required . |
| 23 | Cathy switched on the studio lights , further exposing its tattiness but adding to its intimacy . |
| 24 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 25 | Editor , — Tony Delamothe reviews cynically the newspaper articles opposing Tomlinson 's recommendations to close St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 26 | Sometimes in the forest of Queensland it is very nearly frosty ; and George Schaller recalls how the mountain gorillas in the lush forests of Central Africa often sat miserably in the chilling rain . |
| 27 | STU BAILIE checks out the record shelves for oddball varieties of cowboy junkies , Tex Mex , hat acts , Canuck contenders and pony-tailed gits , and finds a couple of decent records |
| 28 | Once settled , we continued our walk , picking our way along the shoreline to Ravenscar to hunt down the shale fossils there . |
| 29 | Carter dealt out the oxygen cylinders while Ralph stood and stared at the smoke billowing out of the third floor of McKay 's department store . |
| 30 | At the same time , Andres Valenzuela shot out the street lights . |