Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 2 | Suddenly , someone let out an enormous burp . |
| 3 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 4 | Someone clattered down a wooden staircase . |
| 5 | He re-locked the drawer , stood up , and that was when someone switched on the main light . |
| 6 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 7 | Then someone peers out the little square panel , and finally some bolts are drawn back and a Rasta I never saw before beckons me inside . |
| 8 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 9 | Then someone pointed out the inadequate access to the site through the maze of streets . |
| 10 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 11 | ‘ In one reminiscence session somebody brought in an old-fashioned Victorian commode , which looked like a chair , and the group was asked what it was . |
| 12 | ‘ First : get somebody to check out the young strokeplayer and the promising offspinner who have been recommended to members of your committee . |
| 13 | I 've gone round the car twice , I thought , that ai n't stopped but I did , you do n't realise it 's stopped cos I did n't hear the bib bib bib bib bib there 's so much foam anyway you do n't realise there 's none coming out the like fine dribbles coming out of fucking put the back , put the jets bit on he rinsed it all down just about got it rinsed and then it gives you like erm a blob like a wax blob , so I put that on there I thought |
| 14 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 15 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 16 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 17 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 18 | The taken-for-grantedness of those practices around which a conventional culture is formed represents closure ; a genuine academic community , even one built round a well-defined discipline , on the other hand , abhors closure . |
| 19 | Everything came out a little bit corny . |
| 20 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 21 | I can assure you it 's very easy to become lost in the New Zealand bush , and this one stretches over a large area . ’ |
| 22 | They enable one to draw out the distinctive features of that culture , in a more useful manner than does the framework provided by others , and to consider the impact of both history and resources . |
| 23 | So far , gloves had been something to keep out the raw cold of the Yorkshire winter . |
| 24 | Another contemporary issue , though in this case an old one taking on a new form , is the provision of more equal educational opportunities for girls , and for young people from ethnic minorities . |
| 25 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 26 | As long as no one blew up the bloody hotel , that is . |
| 27 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 28 | He was swinging a short sword back and forth idly , and stared out across the tree tops with the air of one carrying out a tedious and unglamorous assignment . |
| 29 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 30 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |