Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third major group to be settled were the Burgundians , who were apparently given Sapaudia a year after the grant of Gallia Ulterior to the Alans . |
| 2 | At the end she suddenly asked Tess a question . |
| 3 | Troops and tanks were sent in to restore order a week after the first demonstrations in Tirana . |
| 4 | ‘ Winter in Majorca is a one-man show portraying the composer Frederick Chopin , written and performed by Michael Lunts , who not only plays Chopin the man but also , quite superbly , plays Chopin 's music ! ’ |
| 5 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 6 | Today 's dancers not only dance fur an audience . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , ’ said Holmes to me , ‘ our dangerous friend Roylott needs the girls ’ money , because he only has £750 a year from his dead wife . |
| 8 | I do n't know if you noticed , but just outside the door , where the ground 's trodden , the grass thins , and there 's a slight hollow that obviously holds water every time it rains , and only dries out gradually in between — nice smooth black mud like double-cream . |
| 9 | The way the press attacked it and so on obviously made life a lot harder for us . |
| 10 | Adam turned his attention to Miranda 's other tender places and casually added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd better give Annabel a call , to reassure her that you 're keeping a watchful eye on the accounts . |
| 11 | If you 're ticklish on the feet , perhaps you 'd better give reflexology a miss , but if you love a little footsie , read on . |
| 12 | For the most part it does not come from wealthy people such as the hon. Member for Oldham , West and other hon. Members — The hon. Gentleman seems to think that he can go to his constituents and say , ’ Woe is me , I only earn £30,000 a year as a Member of Parliament . ’ |
| 13 | The inevitable long loose mackintosh and knitted scarf were in evidence , which along with his totally bald head had long made Sammy the victim of local humour . |
| 14 | After many trials with cross-spars and bridles , the Geisha flew well enough to win Joel a trip to Japan ! |
| 15 | I 've only got quarter an hour to go down and have a smoke . |
| 16 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 17 | The army has been called in to help rehouse a group of badgers . |
| 18 | who got babe , they 've only had car a month |
| 19 | Pound greatly admired Hardy the poet — as Eliot did not , nor Yeats either . |
| 20 | Remember , it only costs £1 a class and all the money is going to a very worthy cause , so why not enter as many different events as you can . |
| 21 | Mr. Chapman , the master , and his wife , who acted as the matron , were together paid £50 a year , which included their rations . |
| 22 | Note this : it is a significant fact that all the victims of the so called Jack The Ripper murders died within walking distance of The East London Patent Pen Works . |
| 23 | John goes further and not only calls Judas a thief but also says that he was chosen by God to perform this evil deed . |
| 24 | Only as the men left did he relax sufficiently to give Constance a glance of bitter complicity and move his lips soundlessly . |
| 25 | The base on which this is probably rightly set bears the signature of Antenor . |
| 26 | The score was 288 when Smith departed for 57 , and if the last wickets did not pile on the pressure they did enough to give England a lead of exactly 200 . |
| 27 | The films were thus split into sections of five seconds each , this interval appeared to be long enough to give subjects a feeling for what was going on while still allowing them to give fairly comprehensive descriptions of the objects and events contained within each film section . |
| 28 | But that was not enough to give Mussolini the bargaining leverage he wanted . |
| 29 | He was with Charles at Bourges in July ( and had perhaps brought Charles the news of his father 's death ) . |
| 30 | As we shall see , there has been much debate about whether unemployment can be reduced permanently by following policies which increase aggregate demand and in so doing raise the rate of inflation . |