Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 2 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 3 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 4 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 5 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 6 | Once again he listened calmly to her tearful pleas , and once again Scott refused to walk out on the station and join Annabel . |
| 7 | But in the wings , British Telecom wants to get in on the act . |
| 8 | Ginny tried to back out of the bathroom . |
| 9 | Miss Florence seemed to skip out of the storeroom and within a minute skip back , displaying a hat on each hand . |
| 10 | Twelve hundred hours and Sheriff Clive Powell prepares to get out onto the streets … |
| 11 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to ease off with the rush hour traffic at the moment , not too bad at all at the moment . |
| 12 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 13 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 14 | Nkrumah decided to get out on the road . |
| 15 | Benny struggled to fit in with the saying accurately . |
| 16 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 17 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 19 | SCARBOROUGH hope to get down to the problem of tackling their much-maligned McCain Stadium pitch with the appointment of new ground consultants . |
| 20 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
| 21 | ‘ I think that 's one of the reasons why Stoneley chose to hang on to the school as an observation point , ’ Hennessy said . |
| 22 | Feeling hampered , Stephen managed to plow on with a story about a Yale graduate who was in prison for fighting the Vietnam draft . |
| 23 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 24 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 25 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 26 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 27 | True , there were a few pockets of stubborn resistance , where the Reiksguard refused to fall back in the face of certain defeat or where the thunder of Imperial arquebuses had shattered the Bretonnian infantry . |
| 28 | When it 's all over Tyson wants to melt back into the crowd . |
| 29 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 30 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |