Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 2 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 3 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 4 | On Friday at school he passed Nutty in the corridor and gave her a fierce stare to remind her about their appointment and she said , ‘ I have n't forgotten , ’ in an aggrieved voice . |
| 5 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 6 | It is only now , almost five years after the fact , that the US press corps and America 's allies are beginning to see Gramm-Rudman-Hollings for the hoax that it is . |
| 7 | I entered Whacker in the book and |
| 8 | It became obvious as soon as Annunziata handed round the soup tureen that Comfort was deliberately trying to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're on our way , ’ reported David into the radio as Greg shot the ambulance into gear , let out the clutch and accelerated away across the field . |
| 10 | Kate often joins Nigel on the set when he 's working . |
| 11 | When Rose suggested that they write to Luke to ask him to meet Maggie off the train when she got to London Moran was furious . |
| 12 | With his other hand , he caught Tolby by the neck and pushed upwards against the chin . |
| 13 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 14 | Moire Rooney asked with a gentle smile , and Patrick immediately knew that she had been deliberately keeping Jane in the kitchen while Tom spoke his piece . |
| 15 | Cajun and Creole cooking 's roots are reflected in the foods of France , Spain , Africa and Germany , as Roz Denny discovered when she visited Louisiana with the Food and Drinks team |
| 16 | Middlesbrough needed a quick goal after unmarked Dwight Marshall headed Argyle into the lead and Hendrie responded . |
| 17 | He helped Willie into the back and threw him an old rug to cover himself with for he still looked terribly pale . |
| 18 | People refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and as a result they rejected his authority ( Mark 2:7 , 20 ; 3:22 ; 14:10–11 , 21 ; Matt. |
| 19 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 20 | He still however was in a sufficient bad temper to punch Jocelyn in the mouth as she brought him tea . |
| 21 | The victory was sealed in the 83rd minute when Jones found Holdsworth in the box and he turned and shot past keeper Bryan Gunn . |
| 22 | Bangor took an early lead when a hit-in from the left wing found McIvor in the circle and he simply helped the ball into the net . |
| 23 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 24 | The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment . |
| 25 | Two of the guards shouldered their bows , grasped Twoflower by the elbows and lifted him off the ground . |
| 26 | After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 28 | As an improvising batsman , of course , his immortal shot was the joyous , off-carved , square , slaphappy thing by which Notts beat Essex in the Benson and Hedges final at Lord 's last July . |
| 29 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 30 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |