Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Jan. 24 Siyad Barre hands over power to new 25-member government formed by Arteh , and offers to step down in exchange for a ceasefire . |
| 2 | MY Mont Blanc fountain pen is en panne and has gone in for repairs . |
| 3 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 4 | ‘ Bonaparte 's got no stomach for the fight : knows we 're too strong for him , and has cleared off under cover of the mist . ’ |
| 5 | Professor Beck emerged with his reputation intact and has moved on to launch a new project called ArtWatch , based in New York . |
| 6 | In due course , Luyt lost his position and has slipped out of contention . |
| 7 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 8 | David Bowie , one of the last rock musicians to mean anything , is in the thrall of smack and depression and has holed up in Berlin to brood . |
| 9 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 10 | My National Executive is keen to see such an index created for use by our branches and has allocated up to £1500 for its this purpose . |
| 11 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 12 | Vernon Russell , the head/wine waiter , is a Londoner who married a local woman and has settled down in Knutsford . |
| 13 | Washington Square ; Greenwich Village , the part of New York which stays up all night and starts waking up around midday . |
| 14 | is a qualified accountant ( FCCA ) and plans to move back to Suffolk with his family to live at Glemsford near Sudbury . |
| 15 | He is to star in Death Wish Five and plans to go on to Death Wish Six and Seven . |
| 16 | Larkin , a former Irish Schools international , normally plays fullback for his club but has taken over at fly-half on occasions . |
| 17 | Illicit coca cultivation has dropped in the Chapare but has taken off in Bolivia 's Beni valley and across the border in Brazil and Peru . |
| 18 | Listen to what it says in John chapter five Truly , truly I say unto you , this is Jesus speaking he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgement but has passed out of death into life . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal has struggled to reconcile the two decisions but has come in for criticism . |
| 20 | ‘ He starts so fast , but tends to run out of steam . |