Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 2 | In relation to Chloe , Pauline and Dan lived out the conflicts of their own adolescence . |
| 3 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
| 4 | Roger starts off the celebrations with spaghetti Bolognaise on Christmas Eve . |
| 5 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 6 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 7 | And then the music stopped and Fael-Inis laid down the pipes and turned his golden gaze on Fergus , and the spell faded , and a cold awareness flooded Fergus 's mind . |
| 8 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 9 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 10 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 11 | This last symbol , however , is much narrower than the pencil lines inserted by Michell to pick out the alignments , and about 0.25 mm is probably nearer the mark for the lower limit of alignment tolerance . |
| 12 | This required LEAs to set up a careers service . |
| 13 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 14 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 15 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 16 | Lloyd Mangram takes over the letters page as of next month — if Scorelord can find him ! |
| 17 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 18 | Between them , Raymond Cusick and Bill Roberts worked out the practicalities of making the Dalek . |
| 19 | Eloise switched on the lights . |
| 20 | In this way , Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies . |
| 21 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 22 | Lewis was almost treeless from quite early times until Lady Matheson planted up the grounds of Lews Castle in Stornoway in the middle of the last century , largely on soil imported from the mainland as ballast . |
| 23 | Although Sherek saw only the drafts of the first two acts , he agreed at once to do so . |
| 24 | Noting that landladies still hoofed boarders out for most of the day , Butlin saw how the holiday-makers would shelter in his amusement parks when it rained . |
| 25 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 26 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 27 | Tammuz put down the drinks and poked it with a cautious finger . |
| 28 | WANO brings together the owners and operators of nuclear power stations and reprocessing plants . |
| 29 | Edward pushed forward the bounds of secular authority usually in reaction to some clerical move or in defence of the needs and customs of royal government ; but as much as by the king this boundary was advanced by his subjects , whether suing for their individual rights and interests through the king 's courts or acting as royal justices , and not a few of these aggressive subjects were in fact clergy themselves . |
| 30 | One would expect the older Wordsworth to trot out the arguments of the Established Church at this point : instead he says he does |