Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 3 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 4 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 5 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 7 | He would happily have stood there kissing her till the next morning . |
| 8 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 9 | Batty and Speed although not finished products were reasonably good players when Wilko arrived and Bremnar was fairly consistently playing them in the first team . |
| 10 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |