Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 2 | Every now and then he lifted a finger off the wheel and pointed out some famous bridge or statue or museum . |
| 3 | This research project is concerned to determine the level of participation of young people in formal and informal , statutory and voluntary youth provision by age , sex , and religion and to investigate how young people see that service ; and to examine the alternatives open to them . |
| 4 | This lessens professional isolation and becomes more possible with better roads and private transport . |
| 5 | if we demand freedom of secession for the Mongolians , Persians , Egyptians and all other oppressed and unequal nations without exception , we do so not because we favour secession , but only because we stand for free , voluntary association and merging as distinct from forcible association . |
| 6 | Previously he worked with a flooring contractor and has also extensive experience in the Architectural and Specifiers field gained with a design and build company . |
| 7 | Among tabloid readers there was also a strong awareness of their paper 's sensationalism , tendency to invade private grief and to print too many silly or trivial stories . |
| 8 | Active research is ensuring diversification of the genetic stock and providing more compatible conditions in which the animals live a more challenging life and will increase in number . |
| 9 | The members turn down the deal and vote out all 12 directors . |
| 10 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |
| 11 | Try to read the feedback and get as definite a picture as you can . |
| 12 | What it did prove , emphatically , is that you can buy a car which will out-handle any Ferrari , out-accelerate the most powerful Porsche to way past licence-losing speed and provide more safe fun than anyone who has n't driven one could possibly imagine . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if there were a minimum wage and also higher taxation both on individuals and on companies , that would kill inward investment and cause even more unemployment ? |
| 14 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 15 | It comes almost as a relief to find Cortot 's Debussy and Ravel less distinguished . |
| 16 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 17 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 18 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 19 | " Ah , " Mr Starke said , sitting forward in his seat and looking more interested , " you resigned ? " |
| 20 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he said at last , conversationally , stretching out along the cockpit seat and crossing long hard legs at the ankles in front of him , ‘ is blatant prejudice a temporary flaw , or a permanent feature of your personality ? ’ |
| 22 | It seems the whole of Japan saw the one-hour programme and became more aware of the Wedgwood Group and its products . |
| 23 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 24 | Taking a gamble , Seb bought a second plough and took on another ploughman . |
| 25 | But everything has gone wrong for him since he changed his mind and toured just one last time . |
| 26 | He conceived of mind and matter as two substances , the relation between which can only be a causal one . |
| 27 | He made up his mind and poured out some more water . |
| 28 | ‘ The wild swan hurries high and noises loud/ with white neck peering to the evening cloud , ’ and ‘ Coy bum barrels [ long-tailed tits ] twenty in a drove/ lit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain/ and hang on little twigs and start again . ‘ |
| 29 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 30 | My main one has got a really thin neck , while the other has a huge neck and sounds either dead bassy or just disgusting . |