Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sending Bacci off to get himself a coffee from the Brigadier who was losing his patience with a recruit in the kitchen , the Captain shut out the noise and sat down to wait , glancing now and then at his watch . |
| 2 | The tired horse stopped dead in its tracks and turned its head around to give him a baleful stare . |
| 3 | Turning her head round to see what the pain could be , Pepita had seen the spider scuttle back into the crate from which she had been thrown with the bananas . |
| 4 | As well as the obvious , known tastes of food and drink , stick your tongue out to discover what the air tastes like . |
| 5 | We relaxed for an hour with a cup of tea and Otley switched the magic box on to see what the world was up to . |
| 6 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 7 | For Andy Norman , the king-pin of British athletics , to take time out to write me a personal letter was amazing . |