Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 2 | Gradually one bin became filled to its brim with heads and feet , another with slippery , gaily coloured entrails . |
| 3 | The Russians were thrown back ; and although they retired in reasonably good order , some became trapped with their backs to Bossau Lake , in which a number drowned . |
| 4 | Even the sexing of fossil human remains appears to be far more difficult than was previously imagined , as Genoves ( 1954 ) has emphasized in his study of Neanderthal remains . |
| 5 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 6 | Since then WWF-UK has developed under his leadership into one of the country 's most effective and powerful conservation groups , raising funds for environmental protection both in Britain and abroad . |
| 7 | If the dam , which has leaked at its toe for as long as any one can remember , should collapse , it would sweep away the busy tourist road the B3046 , seven houses and their inhabitants — and quite probably , the Parliamentary career of Peter Maxwell . |
| 8 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 9 | Everyone , without exception , who has seen this guitar has commented on its appearance in not particularly glowing terms . |
| 10 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 11 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 12 | Why , he asks God , has he never sent him a friend who would have been able to make sense of his inner experience and translate the ‘ music ’ he has heard in his soul into intelligible sound ? |
| 13 | The Neurocranker — an elite class competition climber with a body and brain augmented by medical and computer technology — has fallen to his death from a competition climbing wall 5,000 metres above Tokyo . |
| 14 | A patient has fallen to his death from a window of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The survival of Rock has depended on its position as the core of Male Teen Culture . |
| 17 | Dr. Lynne Michelle , of Edinburgh , has highlighted in her studies on the perception of children of the promotion of cigarettes the grave danger , almost the entrapment of a younger generation by irresponsible elements in the industry and , sadly , the example set by other adults , including parents . |
| 18 | Just as Israel at times has thwarted United States ' regional objectives , so also the PLO has at times thwarted the policies of Jordan and Syria ; Egypt has reneged on its commitment to the Soviet Union and a defeated Syria was able to destroy the Israeli-Lebanese Withdrawal Agreement virtually overnight . |
| 19 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 20 | This has culminated in his appointment as Highland 's director of social work seven years ago . |
| 21 | Er Mr has referred to his preference for the release of lots of small sites on the basis that erm they will be er Leeds residents would be less aware of them than if all the sites are collected together in the form of a new settlement . |
| 22 | Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues . |
| 23 | counselling er , and it follows directly from what was said , erm , Judy has referred in her talk about the importance of communications with members , and I 'm delighted to note , that erm , the Health and Disability Group , is to have a meeting in January to look at a variety of issues including the health work of N C V O. This is the first meeting for I think , two years , and if it new era in communications , I for one am delighted . |
| 24 | Jack Kelly , chairman of the Sigma 33 class , has responded to my comments in the December ‘ Silver Salmon ’ column on the Genesis No 1 genoa trials with a full letter setting out his own thoughts and the class thinking behind the trials and consideration of the new sails : |
| 25 | The Northern Ireland Minister , Michael Mates , has resigned from his post over the Asil Nadir affair . |
| 26 | However , judicial opinion has varied in its view of what is the dominant ingredient of public policy . |
| 27 | Let me remind the cynics opposite that yours is the only Group on this Council which has voted against our proposals on disability . |
| 28 | Forget rolled on his back on the court in the seconds before Noah and other members of the team joined him . |
| 29 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 30 | A boy has come off his motor-cycle at the roundabout outside the main gates . |