Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English painters never did the same , clustering at Hastings or Margate or Eastbourne to gaze out at a grumpy , monotonous Channel . |
| 2 | Hodder & Stanchion carries on under the Attender brothers , Michel and Phalli . |
| 3 | In the council meeting , Kleinwort Benson and UBS Phillips & Drew objected strongly to the two proposals . |
| 4 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 5 | Finn looked up angrily and Melanie ran upstairs before the sharp words and blows began . |
| 6 | Lassa Java … and Ringa Hustle through to the Greyhound Derby … |
| 7 | Weir and Wainwright did well at the line-out and the loose forwards were just as quick and creative as their much more illustrious opponents . |
| 8 | On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 9 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 10 | ‘ Inscrutable bastard , ’ Bodie said , as he and Doyle walked back to the car . |
| 11 | He broke off abruptly , and Doyle glanced round as the sleepy shape of Stone 's young son , Nick , entered the room . |
| 12 | Bob and Beryl live just off the beaten tracks |
| 13 | Grace jumped into the boat , and William pulled hard with the oars . |
| 14 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 15 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 16 | The baby was now cleaned up and Sarah looked down into the bluest eyes she had ever seen . |
| 17 | Some nights , me and Sarah went down to the ocean with a few flasks |
| 18 | The slide of bodies bathed in perspiration ceased as Luke shuddered and stilled momentarily before moving to kneel over her , surveying her with glittering eyes , his shadow cast over her , and Maria fell back against the pillows with a hoarse sob , wordlessly pleading with him to end the torment , aching for him , needing to feel him inside her , hating him for prolonging her agony like this and resenting the control that enabled him to do it . |
| 19 | Luke 's hand moved on , his light fingertip locating the tiny peak of sensitivity which he already knew to be utterly vulnerable to his skills , and Maria moaned softly as a pang of piercingly erotic sensation went thrilling through her . |
| 20 | Erm , if you feel that you are in any way upset by the distribution of schemes in this booklet as it stands , your chance is between now and March to get back to the officers and say , but what about mine . |
| 21 | He was dialling when Miles and Frances came in from the kitchen . |
| 22 | They changed roles , and Lucie climbed up on the playmaster 's shoulders , his weight hardly bending Garvey 's back . |
| 23 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 24 | What made Nate and the executive committee think that guys like Klepner and Mueller knew more about the European components ’ business than the Europeans ? |
| 25 | Adele turned away , apparently satisfied , and Isabel shrank back on the bench , half hidden by Adele 's body as the other girl leaned forward to hear what was going on . |
| 26 | Once the ale was finished , Bessie and Edgebone went back into the house to go to bed . |
| 27 | Agatha fainted , and Sophie ran out of the house . |
| 28 | John and Etty married just before the war . |
| 29 | The public inquiry into the National Grid Company 's application to build overhead power lines between Lackenby , Picton and Shipton opens today at the Hambleton Community Centre , Bullamoor Road , Northallerton at 10am . |
| 30 | If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork . |