Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo province protested that the proposed constitution would effectively strip Kosovo of the special autonomous status conferred on it ( within the Serbian republic ) in the 1974 Yugoslavian Constitution . |
| 2 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 3 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 4 | Might we not accuse Sartre of the same ? |
| 5 | It must not be exaggerated ; the growth of the United States was enormous , but even that giant 's stride did not deprive Europe of the economic leadership of the world by 1914 . |
| 6 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 7 | I myself can not leave London at the present time . |
| 8 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 9 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 10 | I could just about hear Carter in the far reaches of my mind . |
| 11 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 12 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 13 | One insider said : ‘ Di does n't like Balmoral at the best of times . |
| 14 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 15 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 16 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |