Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odds are that he is no longer alive , but I have a silk thread hanging in there with God that he is still alive . |
| 2 | One of the little maps in the book shows the Isle of Wight with some towns round the Isle of Wight , and it said Poole so she said Poole , she said the boat sailed from out of France ? |
| 3 | The wind freshened from astern off Rudha Reidh and we just managed to beat a south westerly gale into Loch Ewe where we were weatherbound for the next two days . |
| 4 | With growth rates for technical and scientific Unix solutions rising by up to 30% a year , SGI is still able to cock a snoot at the commercial world with impunity for the present : ‘ we want our systems to make money , not count money , ’ says SGI president and chief executive officer , Ed McCracken . |
| 5 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 6 | In January 1942 , the President ordered General MacArthur to withdraw from there to Australia . |
| 7 | The top drape is made up from a 150 cm square of fabric cut across diagonally from corner to corner to make two triangular shapes . |
| 8 | The teak and rosewood designs come from all over Scandinavia , but mainly from Denmark . |
| 9 | You see , all these foreigners come from abroad with germs we 're not used to . |
| 10 | However , with a staggering movement in net liquid funds ( working capital ) from £175,970 in the black in 1990 to £245,358 in the red in 1991 , the workshop investment appears to represent a capital investment paid for out of reserves and not from 1991 revenue ! |
| 11 | Male canaries sing at least in part to make females prepare for reproduction . |
| 12 | Both the cholera organism and the ETEC organism secrete toxins referred to here as C T for cholera toxin and LT for the le Lethane toxin . |
| 13 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 14 | Knightsbridge Sale starts at 9am on Wednesday , January 6 . |
| 15 | Fulham Road , SW3 Sale starts at 9.30am on Saturday , January 2 for one week . |
| 16 | The Hayes Sale starts at 8.30am on December 28 with extra bargains for the first hour of the day , lasts until end of January . |
| 17 | ( That 's gained a more recent wrinkle : ‘ IBM stands for In Between Marriages , ’ says one veteran . |
| 18 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 19 | After early rain cleared , the Test started at 2.15pm on Thursday , with 59 instead of 90 overs to be bowled . |
| 20 | Indeed on one analysis , for procedural reasons , B may not be able to raised the issue dealt with here in Strasbourg . |
| 21 | Yes , Dock Commission sold the dredger , they sold the hoppers and then last the steam hopper went from here to Harwich and what they done at Harwich they , on the foredeck , see a big hopper , what we call hopper number three , they put a crane on there and use it t as a hopper then and |
| 22 | Well we 're all struggling to think of them I suppose , but what the one lady said over here about ballad making and story telling |
| 23 | In 1970 , blacks accounted for well in excess of 10% of the American population ( 22.5 million out of 203 million ) ; other nonwhite races accounted for nearly a further 3 million citizens . |
| 24 | His rapport with the Wagner household comes across vividly from letters to Rohde in the late summer of 1869 : " Just recently I 've paid four visits there in quick succession and a letter takes wing in the same direction almost every week " ; " On the visit before last , during the night , a baby boy called Siegfried was born . |
| 25 | It is moot whether " paid for " includes benefit paid for not in money but in some other item of value . |
| 26 | Then Frank bursting at once into song , laughing and winking at me . |
| 27 | I am also informed by the general counsel of the board that the [ defendants ] and [ their ] agents also appear to have made false and fraudulent statements to the Board of Governors regarding the ownership and control of the bank holding company and one of the other two banks referred to above in violation of two criminal statutes applicable to false statements made to a U.S. government or bank supervisory agency ( 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 1005 ) . |
| 28 | 72 Queen Street Starts at 9.30am on December 28 , continues throughout January while stocks last . |
| 29 | The robbery occurred at 6.10pm on Tuesday , and anyone who can help police should telephone Southport CID on , extension 3085 in confidence . |
| 30 | John Stevenson drove at up to 90mph in areas where speed limits were imposed , the court heard . |