Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sitting on the bed in their night things , their hair long down their backs : Jill 's light brown , Jennifer 's almost black . |
| 2 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 3 | Within minutes they had become involved in a brawl , attacking a fellow drinker so fiercely his arm was broken , Stafford Crown Court heard . |
| 4 | He was tall and skinny , with a high bald forehead and a mantle of long hair halfway down his back . |
| 5 | ‘ There are grilles high up in the walls , so whatever happens do n't make a sound or we 'll be in a cell so fast your head will spin . ’ |
| 6 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 7 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 8 | He stopped and pushed his spectacles further up his nose with a forefinger in the gesture Meredith recalled . |
| 9 | The fact that Fields had arrived out of the blue , managed to sell Branson the basic idea of an airline and walked away six months later on his way to a million pounds … that was evidence of a particular sort of skill which Branson could appreciate . |
| 10 | All too soon however his hands began their usual wandering , slipping inside her blouse to unclip her bra hooks , pushing her skirt well up her thighs and trying to slip her panties off . |
| 11 | Only his wife remained , a scrawny figure with gold-rimmed spectacles half-way down her nose , presiding like a recording angel over her ledgers . |
| 12 | He digested what she said by twisting his head to one side and pushing his spectacles higher up his nose . |
| 13 | The Tay broke its banks , wreaking havoc all along its length . |
| 14 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 15 | TWO men had a miracle escape yesterday when their helicopter burst into flames and crashed after hitting a power line . |
| 16 | A WOMAN and a child had a narrow escape yesterday when their car left the road . |
| 17 | I think that it 's not just the policy , I think it 's the whole of society 's attitudes , because children learn what they are by how people see them , and if they 're in a society that says you 're in an unusual situation , if you 're not with two parents then somehow your situation is n't right and we condemn it ! |
| 18 | A DIRECTOR of a leading Edinburgh stockbroker told an insider dealing trial yesterday how his firm had acted on allegedly confidential information about a Scottish company by selling 1.8 million of its shares . |
| 19 | South-West were dealt a blow yesterday when their England flanker Andy Robinson pulled out after falling victim to the ‘ flu epidemic . |
| 20 | CHARLES was dealt a blow yesterday when his polo handicap was dropped by a goal for the second year — to a ‘ rather ordinary ’ 2 . |
| 21 | Jessica stood , jerked his black shirt further down his back and off his arms , stepped back again , looked at him . |
| 22 | SHARES of LEP , the freight-forwarding and security monitoring company , were marked down 15p to 150p yesterday when its half-time figures failed to meet some market expectations . |
| 23 | Killion felt the encouraging , rewarding liquid charge slowly down his throat . |
| 24 | That was my job so therefore my hands had to be constantly clean and that 's not easy for a seventeen year old to keep his hands clean all the time but I had to . |
| 25 | Seven surviving canoes struggled on towards the sloop , a place of safety now , as well as the target at which they aimed ; they reached the port quarter of the Rebecca , and sought to shin halfway up her walls , hoping to be concealed by the overhang of the gunwales . |
| 26 | Soon afterwards fires were blazing on every rooftop in the village , and in every shrine all around its outskirts to the north , the south , the east and the west : in the fields , at the crossroads , by the river , in the forest . |
| 27 | For the first time in months , her hair had been cut and now swung in a pale honey curtain halfway down her back . |
| 28 | He clambered over and pulled off the covering so quickly her hair bushed out like a halo . |
| 29 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 30 | But he was worried more about the waste then then ours contract That 's what he was cos there was a lot of waste on the old tables , and they make a bit more waste than on these new tables there . |