Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has ever taken anti-histamines to relieve an allergy or the symptoms of hay fever will know that such tablets often cause drowsiness and a inability to think as clearly as usual . |
| 2 | In kung fu one should never allow a technique to extend so far as to be impracticable . |
| 3 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 4 | It may be necessary to make a child vomit as soon as possible , by putting two fingers down the throat if you have to . |
| 5 | Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place . |
| 6 | A recent spate of firebombs in some stores , which caused £10 million worth of damage was met with a determination to rebuild as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | Here was a young man who could undeniably hold his own at a pavement meeting as well as in the more impressive surroundings of an election hustings . |
| 8 | If you rent a place to live in rather than work in , you may need to see a solicitor about any of these legal matters : |
| 9 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 10 | Er another er rather another er on that tack of course talking about er well in this case a skeleton , I had a job to do just shortly before they closed Coney Street off fully and e it was myse I was on my own and I had t to pick up some dummies from er a ladies ' shop a dress shop . |
| 11 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 12 | But Indian manager Amrit Mathur claimed he had no objections , saying : ‘ There is no evidence that a team plays any better if everyone is in bed by 8pm . ’ |
| 13 | I have to think that because , with limited space , I have to want to give all of the artists a chance to show as often as possible . |
| 14 | I have never seen a King dressed as badly as you were ! |
| 15 | I 've often noticed it in men and I 've never known a woman to behave as weirdly as a man . ’ |
| 16 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 17 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 18 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 19 | Marshall decried the reversal of a ruling made as recently as 1989 , and claimed that " power , not reason , is the new currency of this court 's decision-making " . |
| 20 | you want a police to come as soon as possible , and you want to , to deal with it because it 's a priority to you . |
| 21 | Machines can keep the disparate parts of such a system co-ordinated much better than men can . |
| 22 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 23 | Another journal has taken a year to respond on more than one occasion . |
| 24 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 25 | Sorry I took so long , but a customer came in just as you darted off . ’ |
| 26 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 27 | The analogy of a gun breaks down badly when we come to consider intermediate targets as shown in the drawing . |
| 28 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 29 | If a solicitor took as long as forty hours over it . |
| 30 | Obviously , there is always a temptation to think nationally rather than globally . |