Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 2 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 3 | Then it turns out that Patrick rather likes it after all . |
| 4 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 5 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 6 | Matt eventually replaces it with an electric violin , deep on echo and reverb , swelling and rolling like a full orchestra , pitching the sombre melodies into the realms of classic film soundtracks . |
| 7 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 8 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 9 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 10 | Well mum only had hers on one the other week . |
| 11 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 12 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 13 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 14 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 15 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 17 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 18 | Gilly could feel Miss Ellis 's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house . |
| 19 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 20 | Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina . |
| 21 | ‘ A bit stiff leaving me in the lead bucket . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll have money enough to pay you by spring , Christian — that 's if you think three pounds ten shillings an acre is a fair price . ’ |
| 23 | The journey in Howard 's car forcibly reminded him of that limitation , however , as he struggled to get the thing going over thirty miles per hour . |
| 24 | Wurtz to have this paper presented to the Académie des Sciences but there was delay because Wurtz was not then an academician : J. B. A. Dumas eventually presented it on 14 June 1858 . |
| 25 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 26 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 27 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 28 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 29 | Dennis apparently saw me as ‘ family ’ , or at any rate as someone he did n't have to impress . |
| 30 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |