Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 2 | She has since discovered that owner Pauline and her colleague Sue are both very knowledgeable and extremely helpful in spite of the fact that Tessa had obviously bought her machine elsewhere . |
| 3 | The machine had carried on recording when Mrs Bradshaw had used the phone . |
| 4 | If anyone writes in to say that Francis Bacon noticed the flashes when he got out of his coach to freeze a chicken in the snow , I shall leave the country , suitably disguised , and write piteous letters about being a laughing stock to all , coupled with the name of sundry . |
| 5 | SWAPO supporters continue to be beaten up at rallies and repression and intimidation in general has not abated since South Africa signed the peace agreement in New York in December . |
| 6 | Slaley Hall , in Northumberland , also had to call in the receivers , development of a new complex at Loch Lomond has also halted while East Sussex National has had its problems . |
| 7 | Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs . |
| 8 | No one has yet suggested that Mikhail Gorbachev , or anyone else for that matter , should make himself Lord Protector . |
| 9 | They were at the toast and marmalade stage when Mrs. Mackintosh came in to say that Sir Bryan was wanted on the telephone . |
| 10 | Tommie flew as cannoneer but not one German fighter came out to play and Roundtrip Jack landed with a disappointed crew only to learn from the Group Armament Officer that the new B-17G with a chin turret would soon be arriving and further plans for their 20mm conversion had been scrapped . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman might do well to remember that Great Britain includes Scotland . |
| 12 | The work at Holy Cross became further integrated when Robert Slater became the chaplain of Rangoon cathedral . |
| 13 | If somebody told you some nigger boxer from Loovul , Kentucky would become better known than Jesus Christ , you 'd tell ‘ em , ‘ You crazy . ’ |
| 14 | In no sense whatever was Korean communism a monolithic movement ; it was riddled with internal divisions and did not become relatively unified until Kim Il Sung purged his opponents in the 1950s after the Korean War . |
| 15 | The sun took its toll in August when I went to Britford Sheep Fair with my Uncle Arthur , a civil servant who used to have the whole month for holiday and returned home to learn that Ron Stanley , a schoolmate who lived in The Friary , had died from sunstroke . |
| 16 | A programme of action research was set up to establish and monitor EPAs . |
| 17 | The American civil war decided something fundamental it did n't decide , as some people argue , that blacks were equal to whites this was w one of the least of Abraham Lincoln 's concerns Abraham Lincoln supported in the eighteen fifties , I throw this in for people who Americ and there 's usually an American in the audience who 's brought up to believe that Abraham Lincoln walks on the water , you know erm he actually suffered from syphilis by that 's by the way |
| 18 | She went on to explain that General Francis was a widower , and semi-invalid . |
| 19 | However he went on to find that Miss T. was lulled into a sense of false security by hospital staff and that she was misinformed as to the availability and effectiveness of alternative procedures . |
| 20 | He got up , put the plates of food in the range oven to keep them hot , then went down to see if Mrs Beavis could help . |
| 21 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 22 | The following night a recce. party went out to see if Capt. Warr had arrived . |
| 23 | Ba pe blamed ‘ Those damned Communists ’ , but Saw firmly believed that Aung San was responsible and stored up a grudge against him . |
| 24 | Once , Swan looked round to see if Little Billy was all right . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'll come in to cook because Mrs Files is off and she wo n't come in . |
| 26 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ the King did not arrive but Patrick Seton , the body-squire did . |
| 28 | But the fact was that the world did not change as de Gaulle had predicted . |
| 29 | No , I did not mean that Dan Quayle is about to leap to his feet to make a key-note speech , or that Clive James is considering a follow-up television interview with Mrs Reagan . |
| 30 | ‘ You did not deduce that Heather Mallender came here . |