Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 32 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 33 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 34 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 35 | Defender Ian Harold starts a three-match ban , while player-boss John Carroll is again doubtful with the Achilles injury that has sidelined him in recent games . |
| 36 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 37 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 38 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 39 | By the time the aged parents had arrived , Lisabeth was ensconced in my bedroom , the sleeping-bag ( which has seen me through three continents , two sit-ins , an eviction and a New Year 's Eve in Trafalgar Square , and which I called Hemingway ) in place on the sofa . |
| 40 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 41 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 42 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 43 | So how much will th if you want to replace them by one pipe how much will this pipe have ? |
| 44 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 45 | Your own haiku can have ‘ movement ’ as its subject , ‘ my town ’ , ‘ Spring ’ or whatever has moved you to powerful feeling . |
| 46 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 47 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 48 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 49 | Even if the full Moon in Libra and at the mid- heaven point of your solar chart on the 10th brings about a complete break from the past , both professionally and personally , it will remove the dead wood which has prevented you from living life to its very fullest . |
| 50 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 51 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 52 | Brook has not simply plonked the cameras in front of his original production : he has re-conceived it in filmic terms , making obvious concessions to cinematic literalism while retaining the sense of wonder . |
| 53 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 54 | So can you er look at it in that light and you will see of course that and I can understand why Mr has done it in this way , he has actually broken down er his the approach to this to looking at this criterion , under the three heads , road , rail and bus . |
| 55 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 56 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 57 | Eventually the Jesuits were able to persuade the townspeople to rebuild the Gothic tower in Baroque style , but the Jesuits were forbidden to decorate it with Jesuit saints and they were forbidden to enter the tower from the church . |
| 58 | It is corrupt ; it has betrayed the ideals you worked for , and it has robbed you of any position . ’ |
| 59 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 60 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |