Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former SAS soldier who 's conquered Everest without Oxygen equipment is having to spend another night there at high altitude because he 's suffering from snow blindness . |
| 2 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 3 | The town subscribed towards a new steamer engine which was christened Constance by Mrs Norman McCorquodale in 1913 . |
| 4 | Even Laurie Mains , the All Black selector whose face rather appears like a grave image when he is interviewed on television , managed a quiet smile after he had superintended the selection of the 30 All Blacks who are touring Australia at the moment and will later play one cataclysmic test against South Africa . |
| 5 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 6 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 7 | On retirement he was appointed ADC to Queen Victoria and Lieutenant of the Tower of London . |
| 8 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 9 | Edouard Manet LE BALLET ESPAGNOL ( 1862 ) A fresh and virtuoso impression of a company of Spanish dancers who were visiting Paris at that time . |
| 10 | In choosing Macmillan over Butler they were choosing Eton over Marlborough . |
| 11 | ‘ On one occasion he was playing Byron at the same time as Richard III , ’ says Miss McCulloch . |
| 12 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
| 13 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 14 | Pioneers who are applying TQM to hotel and catering operations seem universally delighted with results , both in staff motivation and in customer satisfaction . |
| 15 | William was left a red chest of Flanders by his grandmother who was called Alice in fourteen twenty nine . |
| 16 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 17 | Lewis certainly is not short of confidence and after the fight he said : ‘ I know Razor was feeling those right hands I was hitting Dixon with . ’ |
| 18 | The result was a new combination which was to put Arsenal on top of the football world — and to change the course of soccer history . |
| 19 | Seb groaned , but — with the impressive upper-class confidence in his own innate superiority which always impressed Nutty enormously — waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys who were dragging Jazz down the road by his hair . |
| 20 | Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi visited Italy on Oct. 2 , meeting Foreign Affairs Minister Emilio Colombo and President Oscar Scalfaro who was to visit Albania on Oct. 26 . |
| 21 | What a thrill it is to see England against South Africa on 14th November , as the first match and , at the same time , not to have ticket availability restricted to two per club . |
| 22 | He was making the investitures in lieu of his mother who was touring Africa at the time . |
| 23 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |