Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she 'd fallen asleep in Christopher 's room . |
| 2 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 4 | I you we I got used to Wendy 's . |
| 5 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |
| 6 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 7 | Nor is it clear in what way Penn ( if he was indeed Philippos and/or Zoophilus ) became interested in Vial 's plan . |
| 8 | The reason for this is , in my view , made clear in Lautro 's rule 7.3(1) , which I have not so far quoted . |
| 9 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 10 | Nobody ever got high on elephants ' teeth . |
| 11 | At last , the Rolls had broken free of Piccadilly 's logjam and was making its way at something approaching normal speed towards Knightsbridge . |
| 12 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 13 | Very Cocteau , said Wilkie , and Alexander buttoned his head very firmly into his Orphic helmet , thus becoming deaf to Frederica 's brightness and absurd to look at , globular white anonymity above the beautiful , clean , white-clothed , untouchable long body . |
| 14 | The semi-final between Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov has come alive following Yusupov 's win in the fifth game . |
| 15 | She began to struggle free of Marco 's embrace , groping around for anchorage . |
| 16 | He tried to pull free of Rohmer 's grasp , but could not . |
| 17 | When he was involved in serious work , Modigliani could control his drinking and live more moderately , keeping clear of Beatrice 's hectic parties . |
| 18 | Women were just becoming visible in men 's researches : meriting a few pages or a special chapter ( Nichols and Armstrong , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | Again the book is prevented from becoming over-ornate by Minton 's terse line and love of clear statement . |
| 20 | True , she was shapely , in a geological sort of way , and quite intelligent as stones go but , nevertheless , the family was fast becoming alarmed at Ned 's deteriorating mental and physical condition . |
| 21 | Brady — who says Wilkins looks similar to Henson 's famous frog Kermit and Wontkins like a Polish ham with Muppet eyes — claims Jim Henson sold the rights in 1958 . |
| 22 | The keyboard certainly looks similar to Hitchcock 's with its ‘ skunktail ’ sharps and a compass descending chromatically to G♯ . |
| 23 | Paul McStay and Jim Bett , who have been doubtful with injuries , yesterday reported fit for Scotland 's World Cup qualifying match against France on Wednesday . |
| 24 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 25 | But the Chinese embassy in Oslo , where the prize is awarded , reacted with accusations that it was meddling in China 's internal affairs , the stock response to any foreign commentary deemed hostile to China 's rule of Tibet . |
| 26 | In fact , Luke could hardly go to greater lengths in stressing that the Age to Come dawned with Jesus ' birth . |
| 27 | Dozens more road schemes and factory projects could fall foul of Britain 's continuing dispute with the European environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , over the operation of ‘ environmental impact assessments ’ . |
| 28 | If it is well handled , the pictures will speak for themselves and the dialogues will never fall short of pupils ' or teachers ' expectations . ’ |
| 29 | With the return of constraint she put a hand to her fluttering bosom and discovered that several hooks on her bodice had come loose — No , had been torn loose by Benedict 's hand ! |
| 30 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |