Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently someone recorded over the station security video by mistake , the gaunt woman who runs the kiosk is not prepared to testify . |
| 2 | Of twenty-eight new signings for Aston Villa in 1893–4 half never played and only one continued with the club for more than three seasons . |
| 3 | I thought that perhaps something came through the air-vent , down the bell-rope and on to the bed . |
| 4 | Nevertheless nothing decided in the case was actually inconsistent with earlier cases . |
| 5 | Finally someone spoke to a policeman about her , saying he thought it was disgraceful that such a person should be allowed to lurk about near to a play-park for the under-fives , and that ‘ nutty beggar-women ’ should be kept out of the parks . |
| 6 | Using an extra RAM card your own settings can be stored and recalled for future use , or for use with another A2 — possibly one installed in a studio you are visiting . |
| 7 | Hardly anyone knew of the ceremony in advance : no banns were posted and no friends ( except , perhaps , John Hayward ) were informed . |
| 8 | Somewhere something fell with a bang and a man cursed , the harsh sounds swallowed by the wind . |
| 9 | The reason they did n't believe it is that up , up until then practically everybody believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 10 | Now nothing grew on the plain . |
| 11 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 12 | Then everyone went into the living room , leaving Sara to sweep up . |
| 13 | then somebody appeared in the bed at two o'clock this morning |
| 14 | He could just make out the outline of the figure in front of him , sweeping its heavy cape to one side , then something smashed into the side of his head . |
| 15 | High on this list is the kind of writing found in this book : the relation , through tortuous analogy , of almost everything discussed in the past to events not merely in the present , but in the author 's own life . |
| 16 | She now kept that strangeness private to herself — secret ; but sometimes something popped into a conversation before she could prevent it . |
| 17 | A building to house the round table was begun , but otherwise nothing came of the idea . |