Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 2 | The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line . |
| 3 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 4 | No gathering of the clan was really gathered properly until Richard arrived , sartorially plumed and bearing the news from Aix to Brent . |
| 5 | Mrs Carson asked crossly when Ruth appeared . |
| 6 | They relented only when Branson , who had spent three sleepless nights preparing the club for opening , burst into tears of frustration . |
| 7 | They did not have to wait long before Shildon emerged and told them . |
| 8 | He then moved on into Armenia , but on 10th June 1190 , while crossing the River Salef , his horse shied suddenly and Barbarossa fell and disappeared beneath the swiftly flowing waters . |
| 9 | Born in 1903 , a year before Graham Greene , they met only when Orwell was dying ; and only a few letters are known to have passed between them , all composed in polite terms , as if to strangers . |
| 10 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 11 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 12 | A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore . |
| 13 | He asked only that Lionel might accompany them on the trip . |
| 14 | Afterwards they lay together and Kate was amazed at the expression of tenderness on his face as he looked at her . |
| 15 | The four of them lived together and Lee kept her counsel and Hosanna stayed in contact with the spirits and Larry larked around and looked longingly at himself in convenient reflecting surfaces . |
| 16 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 17 | Between meals snacks were forbidden , and the dining room table was arranged so that Suzy 's parents were not directly looking at her . |
| 18 | ‘ Diamonds , ’ he announced thoughtfully as Samuel emerged from the parlour into Nuckell 's Place . |
| 19 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 20 | He stopped altogether as Lachlan solemnly shook his head . |
| 21 | No behavioural intervention can be designed properly until ABC analysis has been carried out for the problem behaviours under scrutiny . |
| 22 | The scores from the returns were added together and Chelmsford still remained on top , led by Katie and her colleagues Annie Marie , Kate and Karon . |
| 23 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 24 | Nationally Sir Matt Busby would probably qualify especially since Bob Paisley 's retirement from the Liverpool board and our learned friend knows of two 44-year men at Ross County , a team he seems to know well . |
| 25 | Audetto , who was present in the later stages , once denied to me that it transpired entirely as Niki says . |
| 26 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 27 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 28 | The designation marking the canonization is frequently deleted so that Val merely sounds like a dilettantish scamp with an eye for the girls and a desire for a good time . |
| 29 | Rather than taking as gospel what the manufacturers tell us , SD-Scicon is busy researching what levels of system security users actually want so that CEC can make recommendations . |
| 30 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |