Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 2 | And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross . |
| 3 | V33 is a low-odour , solvent-free Total Treatment for Wood which has been introduced from France by Kent-based Liveron Waxes. this water-based treatment cures and prevents fungus and insect attacks as effectively as any other treatment on the market , but is much safer as it contains no Lindane , PCP or TBTO . |
| 4 | Slee expresses it very clearly : They need help in wrestling with the questions of identity , truth and commitment which the contemporary pluralism of beliefs and values poses more sharply than ever before and which are therefore very real and pressing questions for children of the secular century . |
| 5 | With only two circuits to book , and programmes changing less frequently than hitherto , fewer films were required . |
| 6 | This tendency to catch and pull happens most often when approaching the workpiece , but with experience I found this can be avoided easily by working against the rotation . |
| 7 | Sergeants and Inspectors know almost exactly where an officer can be found at a certain time , and woe betide the constable who keeps his superior officer waiting . |
| 8 | The Prior questioned him closely and Corbett answered as accurately as he could . |
| 9 | If you 're selling cars , you 've got a guarantee warranty with it , and I think most customers are misled into believing that those guarantees and warranties cover far more than they do in fact . |
| 10 | It is , after all , the case that open learning is growing fast in all phases of school and college work as well as for adult study . |
| 11 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 12 | The affinity between dog and cat reveals itself in the number of equi-status or near-equi-status traits they have in common ; and the differences between dog and cat appear more sharply when the affinity patterns are articulated in greater detail by means of diagnostic frames . |
| 13 | Yet it appears that litigators and judges behaved little differently than in police courts . |
| 14 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 15 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 16 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 17 | The feeling of hitting along the hips will often produce the right kind of action , with the hips and body unwinding much earlier than the player imagines . |
| 18 | The reproduction rates of some countries , regions and classes dropped more steeply than others . |
| 19 | The intensity of Comfort 's concentration was almost palpable and Julia lay as still as she could and breathed as carefully as her sodden lungs would allow so as not to disturb her . |
| 20 | All organisations are made up of individuals and problems occur most frequently when the needs of the individual become lost in the needs and goals of the organisation . |
| 21 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 22 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 23 | Corbett turned to his guide to ask what was happening but found the man had had enough sense and discretion to depart as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 25 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the limits of the state 's autonomy would seem to be very wide , and Block goes so far as to postulate a ‘ tipping mechanism ’ which could allow the state to take a social formation away from the capitalist mode of production . |
| 27 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 28 | But even in this , the red bitch was not to be counted on : fierceness and docility alternated as unpredictably as the direction of the winds that flounced through the valley in the early monsoon . |
| 29 | Up to the mid-1980s , there was a sharp distinction between most time and sight accounts as far as personal customers were concerned ( i.e. at the retail level ) : time accounts paid interest whereas sight accounts did not . |
| 30 | When Kate and Peter moved there more than 20 years ago , there was a patch of grass in front of the house in which languished an etiolated hybrid tea rose or two . |