Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 2 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 3 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 4 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 5 | Well mum only had hers on one the other week . |
| 6 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 7 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 9 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 10 | Gilly could feel Miss Ellis 's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house . |
| 11 | Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina . |
| 12 | ‘ A bit stiff leaving me in the lead bucket . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll have money enough to pay you by spring , Christian — that 's if you think three pounds ten shillings an acre is a fair price . ’ |
| 14 | The journey in Howard 's car forcibly reminded him of that limitation , however , as he struggled to get the thing going over thirty miles per hour . |
| 15 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 16 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 17 | Raider Terence Joseph , 27 , ran off , but was caught after TV 's Crime Monthly showed him on security film . |
| 18 | Such a picture of the mind naturally lends itself to a James-type account of the localisation of bodily sensations : if the mind has its ‘ seat ’ in the head , and sensations are in the mind , then what appears to be the directly-kno-wn location of the sensation must really be the indirectly-known location of the source of the sensation . |
| 19 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 20 | Depictions of the nativity meanwhile show her with her son , with Joseph , the angels , the ox and the ass , the shepherds and the magi : with all the characters who make up the Christmas story . |
| 21 | Disbelief momentarily robbed her of words ; then she exploded , ‘ You rotten , self-centred toad ! |
| 22 | Well they have four cars they have this wee car for , to tow the caravan to the caravan sites on holiday and then he has his new car and the father has a Jaguar and then they 've some other wee car just to get them about you know . |
| 23 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 24 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 25 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 26 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 27 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 28 | When Edward III wished to offer an especially lavish girt of twelve table vessels of pure gold , a great cup and ewer , twenty-four spoons , and forks ‘ on which to hold meat ’ to Pope Benedict XII on the eve of the Hundred Years War in 1337 , his agent still bought them in Paris . |
| 29 | EIRE 's rapidly growing catering industry still has plenty of room for investment , according to a report published by the country 's National Food Centre . |
| 30 | " The problem , dear lady , " he said quietly , his accent more pronounced now that he had calmed down , " is that a certain Madam Lundy was sent a telegram yesterday informing her of the whereabouts of a certain Patrick Lundy . " |