Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 2 | The sun shone through an elaborate crest of arms in coloured glass , with the lion of Venice rampant above a flurry of plumes and a Latin motto , the glass throwing dark Harlequin patterns on to his expressionless face . |
| 3 | The fan overhead whirred softly , flickering strands of her black hair on to her sun-kissed shouders , the red sundress strappy and sexy . |
| 4 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 5 | ‘ So you did , ’ he drawled smoothly , slipping the gold watch on to his bronzed wrist . |
| 6 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 7 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 8 | She contented herself with pulling the T-shirt down over her bare stomach . |
| 9 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 10 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
| 11 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 12 | ALIEN star Sigourney Weaver , 43 , above , is letting her hair down for her latest role as America 's first lady in a comedy called Dave . |
| 13 | In the second half Complicite let their hair down in their own inimitable way . |
| 14 | After breaking the computer down into its hazardous and raw materials , ‘ the only thing we dispose of is between 3% and 5% of the computer 's total weight , ’ says founder and marketing director Peter Domini . |
| 15 | When he bent that famous craggy face and strong jaw down from its natural elevation to the level of ordinary human beings it was not to advance any opinions or tell any anecdotes of his own . |
| 16 | As this model would predict , individuals in Belfast whose personal networks were closeknit tended to approximate closely to the stigmatized vernacular norms characteristic of the locality , which like other ‘ in-group ’ norms powerfully symbolized values of solidarity , reciprocity and to some extent opposition to standardized norms along with their associated values . |
| 17 | Carol was giggling insanely and Melissa was still trying to pull her jumper down over her unruly , but perfectly formed , breasts as they ran across the road to the van . |
| 18 | On 27th November 1974 , on a Complaint by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland , the Solicitors ' Discipline ( Scotland ) Committee found John Duncan Haward Soper , Solicitor , 48 Great King Street , Edinburgh , guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his failure to discharge his joint and several responsibility along with his former partner to keep proper books of a trust and in respect of his failure to comply with the provisions of Rule 4 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Solicitors ' ( Scotland ) Accounts Rules , 1952 , as amended . |
| 19 | She gets a bit down on her own . ’ |
| 20 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 21 | 18 months on from its official opening by The Duchess of York , the Club has achieved both of those initial objectives and is currently trying to build upon them , in communication with its members . |
| 22 | Will made sure she was secure , then lifted a nervously protesting Ellen on to his own horse . |
| 23 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 24 | With a moan of utter and ecstatic defeat she twined her arms around his neck and pulled those sensuous lips on to her own mouth . |
| 25 | Then before she realised his intention he had slipped the doge 's ring on to her third finger . |
| 26 | See through his make-up and only transfer the relevant data on to your mental screen . |
| 27 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 28 | The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs . |
| 29 | She looked at a Swatch watch which she wore upside down on her right wrist . |
| 30 | As the prosecution still seemed in no hurry to have a trial date set , Chief Judge Moran overruled the government 's objections and ordered that Coleman 's legal passport be returned , subject to his giving the prosecutor two weeks ’ notice of his intention to leave the country and to his reporting in to his pre-trial services officer every other week by telephone . |