Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 2 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 3 | As soon as the war was over , Hungary had to revert to its 1918 frontiers . |
| 4 | Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them . |
| 5 | A delighted Mr Crosby refused to capitalise on his strong position to make a public appeal for a job which Notts County 's Neil Warnock remains favourite to fill in the summer . |
| 6 | The NDP failed to improve on its popular vote , winning just over 40 per cent , but benefited from the division of the rest of the electorate between Socred and the Liberals . |
| 7 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 8 | In the eighteenth century the Devon began to spread from its western kingdom and the well-known livestock engraver , Garrard , described it as almost the most perfect breed in Britain . |
| 9 | The Canadian frequently came to the net , so Petchey had to rely on his passing shots , but not enough of them found the mark . |
| 10 | While Schimer/Mosel continues to concentrate on its good list of German editions of international books on photography , one German original is Museumsbilder , the first complete publication of a series of fifteen large colour photographs taken by Thomas Struth in leading museums of the world ( DM58 ) . |
| 11 | Even though she knew she was playing with fire , knew exactly how vulnerable she was , Shannon wanted to laugh in his arrogant face . |
| 12 | Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ . |
| 13 | Katharine wants to hear from businesses , Phil wants to hear from anyone interested in joining the volunteer Greenfingers team . |
| 14 | Rubbing her lame leg , Shama began to speak in her slow , rolling voice . |
| 15 | In this atmosphere , newcomers like Samuel learned to function with their fellow traders . |
| 16 | Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired . |
| 17 | As Silvia continued to inflict on her that look of pained horror , Ronni folded her arms and assumed a school-teacherish expression . |
| 18 | Mortimer began to read in his high , rather strange , voice : |
| 19 | Inspired by the challenging example of Audubon , his working experience under William Harvey , and the living birds at the Zoological Gardens , Lear decided to embark on his own publication . |
| 20 | Judge Lee refused to comment at his luxury home in Malvern , Worcs . |
| 21 | Sometimes , the Hartleys have to rely on their 10 dogs to find sheep covered over by snow blown off sheltering walls and rocks . |
| 22 | This , of course , is precisely what Jesus proceeds to do in his famous overturning of the moneychangers ' tables . |
| 23 | But what would Fernando have to say about it all ? |
| 24 | An arbitration commission of eminent constitutional lawyers from France , Italy and Germany was appointed ; they were subsequently joined by others from Belgium and Spain when Yugoslavia failed to agree on its own two appointees . |
| 25 | ‘ Why should Craig want to steal from his own company and what 's more share the proceeds with an accountant ? ’ |
| 26 | In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend . |
| 27 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 28 | But , as I told the House on 20 November , if Britain needs to act on its own , it must be free to do so . |
| 29 | Rod Wallace needs to work on his finishing , how many times does he miss when he 's clean through ? |
| 30 | In Europe , AT&T plans to add to its existing network management centres here in the UK and in the Netherlands by installing systems in key European commercial centres to provide the service for multinational customers in the UK , France , Germany , Spain , Italy , Belgium , Switzerland , the Netherlands and Sweden , and plans to hire or redeploy more than 650 technicians and sales personnel in Europe to provide customer support for the new services that are to be available in 1994 . |