Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Dracula 's Haus — & Hofmusik revealed itself as a work of pleasing surfaces , but no great depth or impact .
2 And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts .
3 Maybe I should get Michael or Cheta to take me into the tower with them when they deliver meals . ’
4 The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows .
5 It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged .
6 Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool .
7 When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street .
8 She kills it , and Mira reproaches her in a spirit of raillery for similar treatment of two admirers , Cynthio and Amintor :
9 The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road .
10 The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’
11 It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention .
12 The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT .
13 But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity :
14 His last book , Antonietta , published in 1991 , tells the story of a Stradivarius violin , and Hersey inserted himself as a character .
15 The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway .
16 Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly .
17 The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student .
18 Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it .
19 Jotan raced off into the darkness , and Alexei , Jehana and Arkhina busied themselves around the cart , inventive in the face of necessity .
20 The effort exhausted her and Pat wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to Maureen 's car .
21 To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure .
22 But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm .
23 Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker .
24 We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school .
25 He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there .
26 These were years of growth in power and status for the skilled unions of mid-Victorian Britain , and Applegarth established himself among the leading union personalities of his day .
27 " Did n't you and David interrupt us in the study on my birthday ?
28 The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State .
29 The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks .
30 And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before .
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