Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Judge for yourself at Stanley Central Club on Sunday April 5 or Ayresome Quoits Club , Middlesbrough on Saturday April 11 .
2 Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion .
3 But Jack knew that he would think about nothing but Ken all day .
4 In summer 1986 it is planned to take two HND or degree students : their training schemes provide for them to understudy intermediate departmental managers ( including the Head Housekeeper ) for six-week periods .
5 Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 .
6 However , the issue of the relationship between classical deterrence and interactionist ‘ labelling ’ clearly needs further attention , and I will be returning to it in Chapter 8 .
7 It had come from Chessington Zoo and trodden on nothing but concrete all its life .
8 Silverstone 's demise would be mourned by everyone in Formula One , since it offers a unique challenge as the fastest track in the world , with drivers lapping at over 150 miles per hour .
9 Last night prayers were said for her at Watton Methodist Church where her aunt is a member of the congregation .
10 He was bailed on Feb. 5 , but further charges relating to another 10,000,000 yen were lodged against him on Feb. 17 .
11 By Oscar night , Taylor had recovered sufficiently to pick up hers for Butterfield 8 .
12 12.40 : Psychiatrist on phone to confirm meeting with him for December 3rd .
13 I understand you 're meeting with her on Friday next week .
14 ‘ With those great big eyes with love written in them in letters ten feet high . ’
15 There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism .
16 And Microsoft has really trod in it with MS-DOS 6 and its integral utilities .
17 A briefing paper presented to him on Dec. 18 , 1989 , by comparison , had argued that anything up to 80,000 Pacific-based US personnel could be withdrawn by the end of fiscal 1994 , saving around $3,600 million , and that two light infantry divisions on standby postings in Alaska and Hawaii could also safely be withdrawn .
18 Robin Smith has won the England player of the year award which was presented to him in London last night by the sponsors , Cornhill Insurance .
19 ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square .
20 Charlie came to us in October 1910 from West Bromwich Albion , having gained previous experience with Middlesbrough , Liverpool and Tottenham .
21 Very few American politicians and officials were aware of the secret Quebec Agreement , which was not revealed to them until May 1947 , and none knew of the Hyde Park Aide-Memoir , which had been filed amongst Roosevelt 's papers .
22 His retention of the custody of a number of escheated royal honours in Essex and of Hadleigh Castle ( originally granted to him in July 1264 ) until the end of 1265 or beginning of 1266 , and his subsequent association with John de Burgh in June 1266 in the keeping of the peace in the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire , indicate that he successfully negotiated the transition from Montfortian rule to royalist restoration after the battle of Evesham .
23 We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct .
24 The Supreme Court in Vienna on March 2 , 1989 , rejected an appeal by the former Vice-Chancellor and general manager of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein , Hannes Androsch , against the fine imposed on him in March 1988 for perjury in giving false testimony to a corruption investigation [ see p. 35792 ] .
25 The council , the local housing authority , seeking to comply with the duty imposed on them by section 65 of the Housing Act 1985 to make accommodation available , offered him the tenancy of a sixth-floor flat .
26 Despite this constant criticism the ILP was working with the Communist controlled National Unemployed Workers Movement , and cooPerated in the Hunger Marches and Means Test agitation organized by them in November 1932 .
27 If to that we add both the structured dependency which was earlier described , in which social policies and practices discriminate against them in matters crucial to their well-being ( such as housing , income and transport ) , and the personal indignities of physical and social dependence , we must surely put at the top of our agenda for care a determination to assess realistically , yet sensitively , what is the best balance that can be achieved in the present circumstances of that old person .
28 Just like God saw that Gideon ( El Wimpo ) was the man to defeat the armies of the Midianites ( read about it in Judges 6–8 ) : he saw that the murderer Moses was just the man to free his people Israel from the grip of slavery in Egypt .
29 Liam Brady yesterday pinned his faith in winger Joe Miller to help extricate Celtic from the hole they dug for themselves in Switzerland two weeks ago .
30 Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 .
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