Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 3 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 4 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 5 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 6 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 7 | If we claim our interest is to focus on the writing produced only by a sophisticated elite , and that we determine the best literature is that which , in terms of generic structure , subject , and eloquent rhetoric , concerns itself with the preoccupations of males who have a high social and political standing , then the traditional canon will serve the majority of our needs . |
| 8 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 9 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 10 | I had , for the previous fifteen years , enjoyed the privilege of living in a Christian community where the charismatic question had been a lively issue , and where ‘ charismatic ’ and ‘ non-charismatic ’ ordinands lived together in a high degree of mutual trust and love . |
| 11 | The four of them — Simenon , Denyse ( re-named Denise ) , Tigy and Boule — lived together in an exhausting menage a quatre until Denise became pregnant and Simenon demanded a divorce . |
| 12 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 13 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 14 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 15 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 16 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 17 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 18 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 19 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 20 | Once again , the desirability of clear terms of contract , coupled perhaps with an unambiguous job description , is plain . |
| 21 | The King 's surprise changed slowly to an amused smile , then suddenly he began to laugh loudly . |
| 22 | Trusting to things mechanical for the second time today , he sank below on a hydraulic platform designed for wheelchairs . |
| 23 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 24 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 25 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 26 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 27 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 28 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 29 | Luke 's eyebrows drew together in a thunderous bar . |
| 30 | Her brows drew together in a formidable frown . |