Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 2 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I can assure you it 's very easy to become lost in the New Zealand bush , and this one stretches over a large area . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 13 | Something gives out a breathtaking aura of timelessness . |
| 14 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 15 | Everyone puts on an identity-erasing disguise and leaps uninhibitedly into no-holds-barred , orgiastic delight . |