You can use parts of speech as part of your query. For example, [aj*] eyes in [1] would find a two word string, composed of a form of eyes immediately preceded by an adjective (click to try it).

Click here for a list of these part of speech tags.

If you don't know what the part of speech tag is for a given word (or the words in a phrase), just select [OPTIONS] and then [GROUP BY] = [NONE] (SHOW POS). For example, see the PoS tags for light, the light in, to light the, and light breeze.

Probably the easiest way to use part of speech tags is by selecting them from the drop-down list (click on [POS LIST] to show it). By default, the tag will be inserted at the end of the string in the WORD(S) field. If the  [CONTEXT] field is visible, then the tag will be inserted there. You can also type the part of speech tags directly into the search form, but make sure that you enclose the tag in brackets, e.g. [nn2] or [n*].

Note that you can use wildcards for the part of speech tag. For example, [v*] = all verbs, [v?d] = past participle of verbs, [*aj*] = adjectives (including ambiguous noun/adj tags), etc.

Finally, note that you can also use tags to limit the PoS of a given word, e.g. [beat].[v*] to find just the verbal uses of beat. Make sure, though, that you follow the correct search syntax and don't include any spaces between the word, the period (full stop), and the bracketed PoS tag.