Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the interval the all-female Mix-ups team moved into top gear seeing off the challenges of Martin 's Babes and Coshquin Exiles . |
| 2 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 4 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 5 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 6 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 7 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 8 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 9 | Another dispute in 1335 , during the time of John Champneys , Vicar 1330–38 , arose between the parishioners of Halling and the churchwarden John Heryng , this dispute again being taken before the Bishop of Rochester by the then church-warden , John le Baker . |
| 10 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 11 | That stone curtain will not descend which now shuts off the inmates of prison from the free world outside . |
| 12 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 13 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 14 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 15 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 16 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 17 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 18 | Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies . |
| 19 | Even allowing for the similarities in language in these respects , however , the Conservative proposals sometimes had a different content from the Redcliffe-Maud approach . |
| 20 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 21 | Allowing for the vagaries of memory , plus some very likely embellishing in the way Whitaker recounted the tale to his , then , fiancee , it is possible that the above tale contains just a couple of overt simplifications . |
| 22 | You can then paint between the strips of tape with a second colour and remove the tape when the paint is dry . |
| 23 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 24 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 25 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 26 | Even if he had been able to fix the damage , Manville had no desire to drive through the streets of Washington with the slogan ‘ Fuck U Honkies ’ sprayed in bright red aerosol paint on the ice-blue hood of the Ford . |
| 27 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 28 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 29 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 30 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |