Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 2 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 3 | Instead the rep went off to arrange for his boss to telephone Mr Humble later with a special offer , which turned out to be a costly special offer . |
| 4 | There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly |
| 5 | Mollies grow well on a varied diet . |
| 6 | In practice , most accountants moving to the US transfer here with a multi-national ( ’ Fortune 500 ’ ) corporation or an international public accounting firm . |
| 7 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 8 | ‘ If Halifax come back with a decent offer we 'll consider it . |
| 9 | Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller . |
| 10 | OK so people are grumbling at the moment about the players , some are doing well others are not , but having watch Deane miss goals and Hodge run around like a headless chicken every week is frustrating , but perhaps the media 's failure to provide good , unbiased coverage of Leeds results in people moaning to the mailing list . |
| 11 | Hemmings took a catch to dismiss Logie , who was beginning to look dangerous , and then the wickets slithered away — including Harper run out by a fine throw from Hemmings , who was having a wonderful time . |
| 12 | To what extent these isolated scenes of rural India add up to a true picture of the situation across the country is difficult to say . |
| 13 | Or will Doc Croc end up as a matching handbag and shoe set ! ? |
| 14 | For example — and just , as they say , off the top of my own head — I can imagine , even if I ca n't paint , these prototypically Magrittian images : a revolver that fires doves ; a two-humped animal with heads at each end ( a palindromedary , perhaps ) a painting of the Crucifixion that is itself ( the painting I mean ) nailed to a Cross ; an unearthly skyscape in which the four Presidents ' heads from Mount Rushmore emerge out of a billowing bank of clouds . |
| 15 | THE AREA TO BE described in this book lies mainly in the north-west corner of Yorkshire where the Three Peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside rise steeply from a compact bedrock of limestone between Dentdale and Malham . |