Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He was straining hard now , and still nothing was happening ; everything had gone a couple of shades darker , and the roaring in his ears drowned out everything else .
2 Expatriates may be sent overseas because there is a specific demand for their skills , because they are needed to train local employees in particular procedures or because the expatriates themselves are to receive training so that they can return to their home countries to pass on their newly acquired skills .
3 The excavation of a village may reveal a number of small buildings clustered around one much larger building .
4 Cap it 's sort of have these strings things sticking out I just do n't like it whatever it is .
5 In the meantime I must live with the fact that I sweat like a Sun reader at a philosophy lecture every time my wheels crunch over someone else 's gravel .
6 Well , we know the tomato splats have already gone mouldy on Comic Relief , but we had so many pictures and stories sent in we just had to squeeze out another page .
7 but of course when religious orders come in they usually want to be in the inner city and , and would n't exactly qualify
8 They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm
9 And you 've got to get there at night and at weekends to find out what really goes on , and whether they are meaningful in terms of pollution . ’
10 Waldron had been Neath 's manager ( in succession to Thomas ) and coach , and had seen his players roll over everyone else in Wales and based his international selection on that .
11 With all the external guys pegged out it hardly moves in the wind .
12 Even when your children grew up they still made demands .
13 Binoculars bring out its decidedly orange colour .
14 When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants .
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