Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had raised Irish rally engineering to a higher plain and produced more winning cars than anyone before , headed for Europe with some regrets . |
| 2 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 3 | For example , a business in the United States may wish to assign an engineer to work in Japan for some months . |
| 4 | Subjectively , Baldwin felt committed to MacDonald for several reasons . |
| 5 | ‘ People have come to Britain from many lands , ’ he boomed , ‘ and today the country is a melting-pot ! |
| 6 | One train , the 15.4 hrs from Quainton and the 16.15 hrs from Aylesbury on Sunday was cancelled on Sunday for several reasons while the gauging run for King Edward was only carried out an hour prior to departure from Aylesbury of the first ACE . |
| 7 | In general the exchanges reported by Kirk in these paragraphs confirm that Gen Robertson felt that he was having to act very fast in response to a grave administrative emergency . |
| 8 | The executive transporter moved past Christine on all sides . |
| 9 | There was no great immediate excitement , but the passage , and particularly the last sentence , reverberated against Baldwin for many years to come . |
| 10 | It is a view that was fully justified in a wide-ranging exhibition ‘ Le Temps des Gares ’ , originally conceived and executed by Jean Dethier at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1978 and subsequently presented throughout Europe in such places as Milan , Brussels , Berlin , and Madrid . |
| 11 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 12 | The words speak a philosophy known and believed in China for many centuries . |
| 13 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 14 | I 'll go there and kiss the stones , and I 'll go and kiss me old mother who is living in Dublin with some nuns . |
| 15 | In the President 's citation it stated that the Jetstream 41 was the first aircraft to be designed and manufactured in Scotland for several decades and is testimony to the enterprise and teamwork of the company 's workforce . |
| 16 | Four IRA bombs exploded in Ulster within several days , at a cost of £22m ( $14m ) . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 18 | And although they have not been seen in Ireland for many years , sometimes they are heard . |
| 19 | Doris was always coming weeping and shrieking to Mavis in those days , saying he 'd be the death of her , and meanwhile Fred would reel down the cellar steps and visit the tarts for consolation . |
| 20 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 21 | If you assume — as the Treasury does — that little of the original $128m debt owed to America by these countries would have been recovered anyway , this will cost the Treasury , over three years , the princely sum of $11m . |
| 22 | Although the TRP is much more specialised than the LPs we have studied so far , a surprisingly wide range of problems can be modelled as TRPs including many examples which have nothing to do with shipping goods between sites . |
| 23 | Fifty years ago most people would not have thought of RE in such terms . |
| 24 | I 'm sure he 's going to carry on showing the same brand of outstanding leadership he has shown with England for some years . ’ |
| 25 | There were virtually no drugs to be had in Teheran in those days ; the doctors dithered and the family prayed around the bed . |
| 26 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 27 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 28 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 29 | The first major survey of French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be shown in London for many years will open at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery on 24 March ( to 11 July ) . |
| 30 | Although this form of contempt is an easy target for criticism , it has not been used in England for many years . |