Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a record of the activities undertaken along with any results and conclusions ; |
| 2 | However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon . |
| 3 | He looked down at Tom 's heavy brown ankle boots , his thick navy overcoat and the green corduroy cap with the tufts of white hair sticking out at either side . |
| 4 | Just a tall , thin , cross man with a loud voice , pale , staring , pop-eyes , and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril . |
| 5 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 6 | Carpet cleaning needs no chemicals ; handle fits on to heat shield , and steam hose clips on to this |
| 7 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 8 | We all liked Alfred very much , and our sympathy goes out to all his family . ’ |
| 9 | I DID not see the London Marathon this weekend , and so can not complain about it too loudly , but my heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who found themselves confronted by 25,000 runners , all anxious to show how goodhearted they were and what fun they were having . |
| 10 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 11 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 12 | But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor . |
| 13 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 14 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 15 | The afternoon passed by in such a confusion of sights and sounds that she thought she would never remember any of them . |
| 16 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 17 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 18 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 19 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 20 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 21 | It was 1949 before the authorities got around to this trivial matter and their solution was to slap another seven years on the original 18 . |
| 22 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 23 | MY heart goes out to all Scotsmen and women , who watched the World Cup Third-Place Play-off at Cardiff . |
| 24 | As with all restoration projects carried out by any society , cash is the key issue and a share issue has been launched to finance the restoration of both vehicles with £1 shared available in blocks of 10 to adults and singly to children . |
| 25 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 26 | Lisa found out about that erm Mark was going to . |
| 27 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 28 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 29 | At the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village eight cops moved in for another raid on a gay bar . |
| 30 | It is necessary to designate one LIFESPAN user to be responsible for the operation and control of the offline system , since the activities carried out by this person are significantly more complicated than those met by most LIFESPAN users . |