Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Lisa beamed confidently as Vass gathered up her sketches and handed them back to her . |
2 | In 1991 , Motability provided more than 43,000 vehicles . |
3 | Isabel moved restlessly as bitter memories engulfed her . |
4 | ICI has more than 40 chemical plants on Teesside . |
5 | Mona and Sheila rose earlier than usual the next morning . |
6 | Bonn 's roll of 36 000 is by no means untypical : Munster has more than 40 000 ; Aachen 's technical university nearly 32 000 : Koln nearly 40 000 . |
7 | The pile-up on the M4 near Swindon involved more than 50 vehicles . |
8 | Ellen asked icily when McIllvanney was out of earshot . |
9 | Markby asked twice if she were cold and she knew he 'd noticed and was politely trying to find out what was wrong . |
10 | The poets Czeslaw Milosz and Donald Davie have been bothered by the insufficiency and irresponsibility of the lyric genre , and it could be felt that Kundera goes further than they do in denouncing the lyric , and fares worse . |
11 | However , aid from the United States ceased soon after President Reagan came to office in 1981 and the US administration began to use its influence in the IMF and the World Bank to end any assistance to the Sandinistas . |
12 | Orton goes further than Laing , for his plays transgress accepted norms at every point yet refuse to replace them with ‘ our true potentialities ’ ; Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self , the repressed human essence . |
13 | Dennis winked unpleasantly as they walked back to the stables . |
14 | Travis recovered quicker than she , thrusting her away . |
15 | I taped I want you to check it for me , I taped me and Sue walking home cos I have to do around the school you see . |
16 | Brundle looks askance when he is asked if he has ever read the books of technical instruction in race-driving written by Pierro Taruffi and Alain Prost , among others . |
17 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
18 | A very large economy such as the U.S.A. has more than 100 million workers , the large European countries have about 25 million workers . |
19 | In time of crisis , the United States has more than once confronted the ‘ all or nothing ’ choice of military intervention or abandoning its client . |
20 | A generous Dalglish said : ‘ Watford played better than the score suggests , but obviously we are pleased to see a few goals go in . ’ |
21 | They have an estimated 343m shares worth £1.7bn and last year the wealthier David received more than £30m in dividends alone . |
22 | Lloyd Walker arrives today as skipper Michael Lynagh flies home to have surgery on his dislocated shoulder . |
23 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
24 | Corbett ate sparingly as he always did . |
25 | Thiercelin and Epitot saluted smartly as he passed , but he did not see them , nor even his entourage . |
26 | It would be a shame to see Rocky dropped again after apparently playing very well since he came into the side , but at the same time I ca n't really see him keeping Strach out of the team . |
27 | In fact , Kylie and big screen co-star Charlie Schlatter look more like they have n't got a care in the world . |
28 | Barney nodded resignedly as he gave the canoe a push with his foot , and watched it drift out into midstream . |
29 | Perhaps this was because Richard paid better than all rival employers , but over so long an association other bonds must have developed . |
30 | Dennis arrived just before the clock chimed the hour . |