Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 2 | In Kitwe city centre normality ceased altogether and the area resembled a war zone . |
| 3 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 4 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 5 | Examples are listed below but the list is not definitive and other information may be acceptable : |
| 6 | An explanation of the available function keys and how these are used is given below and a summary is given in Appendix A. |
| 7 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 8 | At Platform Three stood a rake of blue and grey BR Mr. 1 coaches , headed by one of Vulcan Foundry 's famous ‘ Whistlers ’ , its 16 cylinders thumping gently and the turbocharger drilling away in the well-known manner which earned the class its nickname during 30 years and 250 Million train-miles of running over BR 's main lines . |
| 9 | The area of solid wall became less and the design correspondingly more complex . |
| 10 | At first , we rode together but the freshness of the horses , particularly Bowyer 's and Southgate 's , meant we had to break up . |
| 11 | They clung together and the ground stopped shaking . |
| 12 | The blood leakage will dissipate eventually and the blurring will go away , but then there 'll be another leak , and another , and every time it happens it brings me closer to going blind one day . ’ |
| 13 | The base comes in two sections which simply slot together and the top is fixed by putting the four screws provided into pre-drilled holes . |
| 14 | The hip and femur bones were fused together and no movement was possible at that joint . |
| 15 | The plane 's wing was damaged on impact and Mr Treweek saw the tail break off as he swam ashore but the pilot managed to land the plane safely on the beach . |
| 16 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 17 | Phoebe jerked away and the radiologist only just managed to suppress her irritation . |
| 18 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 19 | The mouth and chin had been torn away and the jaw broken . |
| 20 | Quigley pushed his way forward towards the platform as the woman in the wheelchair was hustled away and the man with the wart returned , rather miserably , to his place in the congregation . |
| 21 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 22 | Everyone wants all their problems solved yesterday or the day before . ’ |
| 23 | When the islands were first settled , the population began to increase rapidly and the number of inhabitants soon exceeded the resources , prompting emigration to other Portuguese lands . |
| 24 | Advances in all aspects of low energy ion scattering are occurring rapidly and the breadth of these applications will certainly expand in the near future . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , each make of microcomputer is designed differently and a program written for the BBC-B will not work on an IBM PC or an Apple 2e . |
| 26 | To ‘ unwind ’ a vehicle when it is on a hard surface , just drive one front wheel briefly onto the verge and allow the wheel to slip slightly and the transmission to disengage itself . |
| 27 | This was followed by a growing uneasiness as Helen 's time drew near and a sensation , despite my physical condition , of being drained and miserable . |
| 28 | ( iv ) If workers in a particular industry become more polarized in their commitment to the labour movement , membership will fall unambiguously but the wage change may go in either direction . |
| 29 | Income from the main revenue earning project , the Enterprise and Education Initiative , also rose slightly and the project has been extended by the Industry Department for Scotland for seven months to 31st March 1991 . |
| 30 | Mr Stanley Goodchild , county director of education , said the decision would be considered carefully and a report made to the education committee on December 20 . |