Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 2 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 3 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 4 | After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants |
| 5 | A few too many drinks , and Lee Marvin was often ready to come out fighting , as director Sam Peckinpah found out during a party to celebrate the finish of filming on a TV special , The Losers . |
| 6 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 7 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 8 | Tuesday kicks off with a champagne breakfast hosted by Dorling Kindersley . |
| 9 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 10 | In truth the TV realisation of Poet 's Corner , Westminster Abbey was nothing more than a photographic blow-up , and the monster just the latex-coated hands of writer Nigel Kneale sticking out through a hole in the picture . |
| 11 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 12 | Wing Nigel Walker celebrated his call-up to the Wales squad by collecting four tries , including one from a spectacular 70-metre sprint , while Simon Hill weighed in with a hat-trick . |
| 13 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 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 | Rex moved in for a cuddle . |
| 16 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 17 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 18 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 19 | Fortunately , those 600 were the last for those shoes as Nike came round with a pair , but Zarei did seem disappointed at the lack of regular sponsorship . |
| 20 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 21 | For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow . |
| 22 | At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet . |
| 23 | He stood by the cab with the door held open , and Lucy climbed out in a daze . |
| 24 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 25 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 26 | Rebecca bounded back like a retriever with a stick . |
| 27 | But the Redworth Hall hotel , near Heighington stepped in with a surprise Valentines Day treat . |
| 28 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 29 | George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world . |
| 30 | Tendulkar and Richard Blakey hit back with a stand of 176 in 24 overs , but then Neil Fairbrother swooped to run out the Indian ace with a direct hit . |