Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 2 | Damian Flint slowly lowered his dark head . |
| 3 | Alresford 's recently formed rugby club , who have successfully completed their inaugural season using facilities at Perin 's School , have asked the parish council to consider creating a rugby pitch at Arlebury Park . |
| 4 | ‘ The middle , ’ Reyce continues , ‘ although enjoying much meddow and pasture , yett far more tillage doe from thence raise their cheifest maintenance . ’ |
| 5 | The music by Dominic Muldowney is no more than pleasant , but it effectively fulfils its main purpose , which is to keep at bay recollections of Lerner and Loewe . |
| 6 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 7 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 8 | In 1987 , Tyacke vigorously restated his original position in his book Anti-Calvinists : The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590 1640 , only to be turned on once more by his critics . |
| 9 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 10 | ‘ I must say I 'm rather enjoying our little outing . ’ |
| 11 | Final pricing depends of course on how Sun eventually pitches its Tsunami offering , which is to be announced two days prior to HP 's roll-out . |
| 12 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 13 | Yesterday the ten-minute Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) was overwhelmingly given its First Reading with a majority of 200 , with all-party support . |
| 14 | Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air . |
| 15 | yes you would actually get , a magic E right , or a magic I making that vowel right say its long name , so it would be quite difficult to say dig giding |
| 16 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 17 | A MOTHER stabbed to death a pensioner the day after charges alleging he raped and indecently assaulted her four-year-old daughter were dropped , a court was told today . |
| 18 | He cut his right thumb , had five stitches put in a nasty gash beneath his right knee and badly bruised his right ankle . |
| 19 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 20 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 21 | THE history of science is a sequence of conflicts between incompatible theories in which each side vigorously defends its own theory until conclusive evidence persuades a majority to accept one view . |
| 22 | After 1918 Gosse worked as a medical referee for the Ministry of Pensions , and later at the Radium Institute , eventually becoming its medical superintendent . |
| 23 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 24 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 25 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 26 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 27 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 28 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 29 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 30 | His legs were encased in tight black trousers that outlined his figure tantalisingly ; the light was not quite bright enough to see his full silhouette . |