Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrey declared their second innings on 310–6 with Bicknell hitting an unbeaten 53 after brother Darren had earlier scored 87 . |
| 2 | In the meantime , the Hercules of RAF Lyneham have already stepped up their workload to the war zone . |
| 3 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 4 | Of course Nebbins had never seen a tractor before , he wondered what it was . |
| 5 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |
| 6 | In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war and the unification of Germany Smith had already calculated that British industry , and with it the country 's future , would be jeopardized unless there were a completely different and far more positive official approach to both technical and art education . |
| 7 | Because our neighbour country of South-West Africa has already got its freedom . |
| 8 | That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance . |
| 9 | Much of the village , the church , farm and the surrounding land of Stanton Lacy has long belonged to the Oakly Park estate , whose mansion lies two miles south on the River Teme . |
| 10 | By the end of January US forces still remained stationed near the Cuban and Peruvian embassies ( where members of the deposed regime and their families , including Noriega 's wife and daughters , were still taking refuge ) and were stopping and searching vehicles leaving diplomatic premises . |
| 11 | King Kahlid of Saudi Arabia had also said no . |
| 12 | His recording of Giulio Cesare has recently shown that he can succeed when his singers are on the same level as his musical ideas . |
| 13 | It is also ironic that the reshuffle which led to the departure of Mr Lamont has never achieved its aim of winning confidence for the Government . |
| 14 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ Now we 've found poison in that dish , I think we can rule out any idea of Sir Thomas creeping upstairs to poison himself — purposely at any rate . |
| 16 | His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure . |
| 18 | Save & Prosper launched a new plan on Thursday , MIM Britannia has a new plan available from next week , and the investment trust arm of Robert Fleming has recently unveiled a plan . |
| 19 | Attracted by the lion 's share of a $10m industrial assistance fund , a bit of McDonnell Douglas has already arrived , bringing with it more than 1,000 jobs . |
| 20 | Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer . |
| 21 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 22 | As the words of Aubrey Jones cited above suggest , bargaining is based on the unions ' threat to disrupt the state enterprise 's activities . |
| 23 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
| 24 | But the behaviour of Reverend Prentice has only added to his anguish . |
| 25 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins was standing by Carson 's chair as the general read and re-read the slip of paper Hawkins had just handed him . |
| 26 | The Bank of St George have already advanced Famagusta all they can spare : they have nothing left . |
| 27 | The earth lying under the paving stones of Fleet Street had apparently had some extravagant chemical effect . |
| 28 | And FA director of refereeing Ken Ridden yesterday warned that referees would not tolerate any ‘ trickery ’ . |
| 29 | It consists of the kind of works Brusberg has always championed : pictures of people . |
| 30 | Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett . |