Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 2 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 3 | ‘ The wild duck wherries to the distant flood … ''Whizz goes the peewit o'er the ploughman 's team/ with many a whew and whirl and sudden scream … ’ 'A sedge bird built its little benty nest/ close by the meadow-pool and wooden brig … ’ |
| 4 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 5 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 6 | Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door . |
| 7 | Well I 'm just make sure you behave your alright but just go a bit steady out the front there . |
| 8 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 9 | In a London teaching hospital close by the river , from which he could in his more masochistic moments glimpse the window of his own office , Dr. Charles Freeborn , Controller of the Forensic Science Service , all six foot four of him , lay rigidly in his narrow bed , his nose peaked high above the methodical fold of the sheet , his white hair a haze against the whiter pillow . |
| 10 | In winter you can ski cross country all down the valley , or ski downhill at Andermatt , Disentis and Flims . |
| 11 | There were houses of turf and stone close by the river , and sometimes they passed rowboats , but the flatboat was sailing up against a rock wall it could not scale . |
| 12 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 13 | An obsidian plaza close by the road-block was almost deserted . |
| 14 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 15 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 16 | Channel Four back a bit no One , Two |
| 17 | ( Though it was in fact close by the high altar steps , so perhaps a little logic came into it too . ) |
| 18 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |