Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payton raced on to a well weighted pass from Wdowczyk , held off Bain , and then drilled the ball low past Mathers . |
| 2 | Gyggle started off with the most sophisticated of these , the symbol and colour cards , but was soon reduced to getting me to try and guess — and a guess is all I could make — which of three paper cups had a ping-pong ball under it . |
| 3 | Joss grew up into a very pleasant pig , and some can be very temperamental and even nasty , and he stayed with us whilst Mother was alive . |
| 4 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |
| 5 | One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans . |
| 6 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 7 | Earlier this year Central and Anglia teamed up in a jointly owned group , Television Sales & Marketing Services , which has now won contracts to sell time for Border TV and the cable channel Discovery . |
| 8 | Then , in Madras , England went in with a more balanced attack of three seamers and three spinners , including Graeme Hick . |
| 9 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 10 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |
| 11 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 12 | Pushing the door closed again , Grant limped over to the dead oriental . |
| 13 | Pupils from Grangefield Comprehensive , Newton Aycliffe dropped in with a measly 70,000 votes for their Miss Foster yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ Very big , ’ Ashley agreed , as the BMW swung round in a perfectly described arc in front of them . |
| 15 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 16 | Rain and Oliver went back down the badly lit stairs . |
| 17 | Tiring of the ceaseless flow of enthusiasm from Lionisers , Angelina wandered over to the proudly displayed visitors ' book . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's nearly twelve o'bloody clock , ’ Billy slurred back from a now almost horizontal position , ‘ ai n't you never had enough ? |
| 19 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 20 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 21 | Just prior to Twelfth Night in the January of 1483 , Anne went down with a not too serious attack of the prevalent sweating sickness . |
| 22 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 23 | Irish Catholics in Glasgow grew up in a similarly hostile environment . |
| 24 | Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon . |
| 25 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 26 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |