Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chamber was empty so Corbett went straight to his room , threw himself down upon his cot and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 2 | Regarding tonight I 'd be very suprised if Merson plays right up front . |
| 3 | But , most certainly , they will not suppose that he was wrong because Marx knew better , because the future for society would inevitably be Marxist . |
| 4 | Ursula stubbed out one cigarette and lit another while Charlotte stared straight ahead , trying to assemble in her mind all the consequences of what she had heard . |
| 5 | It is not clear when Zipporah returned home — perhaps soon after the incident recorded in 4:24–26 . |
| 6 | Things started to go wrong when Stuart became increasingly dissatisfied at work . |
| 7 | He was paler than Margaret had ever seen him . |
| 8 | Cranston moved closer , his face more serious than Athelstan had ever seen it . |
| 9 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 10 | The judge told Guppy : ‘ I am satisfied that you have at least as much as Marsh stacked away somewhere . |
| 11 | It became visible when Jack flew directly above it , and then only hills could be seen . |
| 12 | like that cos Bill goes early to release them on Fridays cos that way they can go shopping with their missus and everything . |
| 13 | Blue-banded grass parakeets abounded in the neighbourhood of Spring Hill , feeding on corn from the margins of cultivated land in flocks larger than Gould had ever seen before ; compared with the proliferation of different species around Hobart , however , only a few birds were collected on this overland journey . |
| 14 | Many people who dare not say so would be secretly glad if Israel swatted away Iraq 's nuclear ambitions with another elegant air raid . |
| 15 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
| 16 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
| 17 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 18 | This bias is more unfortunate because Glen writes well : even the footnotes are rewarding . |
| 19 | In the context of the early 1940s ( Olivier 's film was conceived in 1941 before America had formally joined in the war ) this creation of an idealised Elizabethan past was particularly convenient for Britain trying to persuade America to participate wholeheartedly in the war effort for the preservation of civilisation against barbarism . |
| 20 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 21 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 22 | For a moment she looked as vulnerable as Virginia had ever done . |
| 23 | It was only a faint smile , glimmering , but more than Ruth had ever thought she 'd see from Fand . |
| 24 | Any more than Sandra had just been a wholesome , beautiful , normal girl looking to settle down . |
| 25 | She pointed at Algernon Peckham , who was merrier than Auguste had ever seen him , teasing Emily to Heinrich 's disapproval . |
| 26 | I would not be happy if Leeds spent that much money on him . |
| 27 | Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable . |
| 28 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 29 | Yes I 'm very happy because George has now got a father back again , and that 's what counts . |
| 30 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |