Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory .
2 It will take years for Albania to catch up with the standards of medicine in other European countries but not all the news is negative .
3 Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser .
4 And if that was the case , then the idea for Artemis to move up to a horse must surely have sprung from him .
5 As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control .
6 Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences .
7 I have n't read either , but I think it is smart of HarperCollins to cash in on the classic revival vogue .
8 A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot .
9 There was another stream to drink from , perhaps an opportunity to visit some of the gorge 's ‘ five considerable caverns ’ , and in the scene as a whole , images enough for Coleridge to store up for the poetry of the future .
10 Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 .
11 Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it .
12 He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain .
13 It was a nagging frustration for Mary to go up to the Ryans and not be able to talk about what was going on at Riverstown .
14 After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports ,
15 ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago .
16 I am well aware of the anxiety of people in Plymouth to get on with the whole business of the release and development of Ministry of Defence land .
17 In France the government had been forced in July to back off from a declaration that deportation measures would be stepped up [ see p. 38354 ] .
18 Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock by Jack Butler will come out as a paperback original from Abacus in November to tie in with the anniversary of the US election — Bill Clinton has ‘ an offstage part ’ .
19 Hawke , whose visit was scheduled to take place in October to link in with the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Harare , expressed concern over the slow pace of reform .
20 Next morning I was a new woman , quite revitalised and waiting contritely for JTR who I had summoned back up from Edinburgh to get on with the Lewis Ramble .
21 He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive .
22 What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum .
23 All the master puppeteers of pop had done was speed up the sophisticated , satin-smooth voice of the boy from Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire to end up with the higher-pitched , female version — Kylie .
24 Wakefield soon took the lead for the first time when Conway 's towering kick bounced over the line for Mason to touch down near the posts .
25 The time had now come for Eric to go up into the Apennines on behalf of the Commission to pay and honour all those Italians , for the most part peasants , who had helped and in many cases saved the lives of escaping prisoners-of-war .
26 The crowds assembled in Trafalgar Square cheered demands for Britain to keep out of the spreading European crisis .
27 But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama .
28 To the Edinburgh , at least the Scotland passengers , to Carstairs to connect up to the main Glasgow Central to Liverpool , Birmingham and there were all these places .
29 The dispute within Solidarity reached its height during the June 29-July 1 meeting of the Solidarity citizens ' committees in Warsaw , at which some observers feared a complete break-up of the union , and at which Michnik publicly appealed to Walesa to step back from a potentially ruinous confrontation with the government .
30 It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long .
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