Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 2 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 3 | Gosh that money you spent out Ange twice . |
| 4 | She could have suggested that it was none of his business , or have made an excuse that she 'd forgotten to put it on , but , wits scattered , with her usual honesty she blurted out the exact truth . |
| 5 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 6 | That bit I put in about knowing if we were being followed when I drove you to the station will stop them trying to do just that , will keep them away from here . |
| 7 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 8 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 9 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 10 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 11 | That very quick grey shy look she puts on , like a little lance . |
| 12 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |
| 13 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |
| 14 | I have been interested to find out more about the Medau method for some time now — and what a pleasant experience it turned out to be . |
| 15 | one hour and eleven minutes it said on there |
| 16 | In typical Whig language , Ferguson concluded that the Sovereign having no other Ground of claim to any Power or Prerogative , save what he hath from the Constitution which hath settled and vested them in him , That Prince who goes about to overthrow this , does all he can to cancel his own Right . |
| 17 | The views of the electorate can be registered only very occasionally , if at all , and in the most general terms the side of the political spectrum they fall on is identified . |
| 18 | Not the six foot he 'd thought , seven or eight foot we went up and started to pack away again . |
| 19 | ‘ We are looking for things like active galactic nuclei which put out tremendous energies in neutrinos . ’ |
| 20 | Last week Mr Harper 's brother Paul offered a £500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the four-man gang which made off with the £3,000 haul . |
| 21 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 22 | When Matron came in that afternoon everyone stood up and shouted ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 23 | That afternoon she sought out his housemaster , a fresh-faced biology PhD who habitually passed his free-time assembling , examining and cataloguing slides of plankton species from the Moray Firth . |
| 24 | A small , hairy-faced little creature appeared , a veritable mannikin who glared up at Sir John . |
| 25 | The Mermaid is at the end of the Old Town in a row of narrow houses which peters out on to the beach past the Fisherman 's Museum ( complete with stuffed albatross ) and the new Sea Life Centre . |
| 26 | The origin of the phenomenon is to be found in the fact that associated states which lie in deep electrostatic wells have relatively little motion compared to the dissociated states in which the eectrostatic interactions are removed . |
| 27 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 28 | ‘ Strange times we live in . ’ |
| 29 | Strange times we live in , he said , when he finds himself looking over his shoulder and thinking he might be safer in Sarajevo . |
| 30 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |