Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ( When this portrait is removed , apparently , which it was once , early in this century , the ghost of Webb gallops noisily up and down the stairs . )
2 Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper .
3 Sir Ian thinks further ahead than most governments care to go .
4 So much so that Jan got quite giggly and started swapping bargain stories with him , and I was left with Darren .
5 Garbage was piled high in corners , and Maggie watched Sarah stepping carefully so as not to tread in the filth .
6 Luce asked as casually as possible .
7 Indeed , Eisenman goes so far as to suggest that the families of Jesus and John the Baptist may even have been related to that of Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots at the time of Jesus 's birth .
8 Patrick asked more lightly than he felt .
9 To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer .
10 However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat .
11 At home Perdita behaved more atrociously than ever before , storming round the house , refusing to get a job and screaming at Violet and Eddie when they returned bronzed from a month in LA with Hamish and Wendy .
12 Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide .
13 Hauser paced slowly back and forth at the far end behind his empty chair as he spoke .
14 Abe ‘ The Babe ’ Lincoln looks down disapprovingly as our hero blows the crap out of anyone who moves .
15 The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing .
16 The problem of dieting without increased physical activity is that the BMR slows down rather than speeds up .
17 Krupskaia admitted more truthfully that at least three-quarters of their inmates were the result of contemporary conditions , not of past sufferings .
18 Mrs Blakey asked as casually as she could , pushing a packet of wafer biscuits towards Kate .
19 But Eusebius goes much further than this .
20 I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day .
21 John describes the agony of the ensuing Dark Night of the soul but Hilton writes more calmly and with an acceptance of this dereliction which is required by all mystical traditions .
22 Marie moved forward so that he could see her better .
23 On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place .
24 A. Just let Adkin know as soon as possible .
25 He also called on ANC president Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to meet as soon as possible to end political violence in the region .
26 Basingstoke came back again and scored from a scrum .
27 Expression of NFs occurs as early as 9-10 days of gestation in the mouse central and peripheral nervous system and coincides with the appearance of postmitotic neurons ( 2 ) .
28 Mark Prudhoe played extremely well and saved one certain goal , while one or two crosses went across the face of goal without anybody getting a touch . ’
29 Jorge came in then and stood at the door .
30 Mr Straw stated quite unambiguously that ‘ I hold the view that citizenship should be taught in every school , to every child , in a systematic way . ’
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