Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now introduce the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation such that ( R(s) being an even function ) . |
| 2 | Neil MacDonald looks at the havoc this is creating in a coup-prone land . |
| 3 | When Waddesdon Manor reopens to the public next year it 'll boast one of the finest collections of furniture , porcelain and carpets anywhere in the world . |
| 4 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 5 | Similarly , without knowing their thickness , it is impossible to calculate how much the low-density Lough Neagh Clay contributes to the gravity low that underlies the Lough . |
| 6 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 7 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 8 | Negotiations are going ahead for booking top personalities like Johnny Mathis , Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr to appear at the club subject to approval by the licensing authorities . |
| 9 | Silas had said he wished to leave for Hastings immediately after the meal , so Lucy came to the table ready to leave at a moment 's notice . |
| 10 | Frowning , she added , ‘ What did Dad mean about David going to the house last night ? ’ |
| 11 | As David walked into the canteen one of them said , ‘ Here comes Major Tom ’ . |
| 12 | Following him , Gleeson scuttled through the door marked ‘ Governor 's Office ’ but the air still held his shape . |
| 13 | Irwin 's sons John and David featured in the Division Two winning side , Greystone Loopers , while Methodist teams took Division Three and Four titles . |
| 14 | Well when Ken said about the headboard last week they were selling sheets on mini market I said pink ones and grey ones but I said not while they had the Christmas stuff in , it was before the Christmas stuff they must have taken them out you know I |
| 15 | Hari pointed to the building tall and narrow sandwiched between two other houses . |
| 16 | Then David slid into the seat next to her , and added his cup of tea to hers . |
| 17 | A paper by Dr Philip James of the University of Dundee published by the Lancet last year amplifies an idea first suggested in the 1930s that the disease may be due to the blockage of blood vessels of the nervous system by fat globules ( Lancet , 1982 , vol 1 , p 380 ) . |
| 18 | But in August Sarah came into the shop one Monday morning looking worried . |
| 19 | The Boston artist Lilla Cabot Perry lived in the house adjacent to Monet 's at Giverny for twelve years , receiving tips on gardening as well as useful advice on painting , and proved an enthusiastic ambassador for the Impressionists back in the States . |
| 20 | The Dynmouth Hards rode into the town that night and took away the telephone from the kiosk in Baptist Street . |
| 21 | It looked southward , across the length of the green , to the little market town of Lulling hidden in the valley half a mile away . |
| 22 | It seems that thousands of these operations were performed in America from the 1850s onwards , while in England in 1869 Dr Wells reported in The Lancet one hundred cases . |
| 23 | Peckle grumbled about the treatment due to envoys but the good physician , Throgmorton , laughed sourly and said he was pleased to be as far away from the Frogs as possible . |
| 24 | Seb learned that Boz had returned to the Wychwood Forest when Melody came to the farm one afternoon to say goodbye to him and to Christian . |
| 25 | The green speckled Spartan basalt used at Knossos came from the south Peloponnese ; a store-room in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth held a supply of Spartan basalt blocks at the time of the temple 's abandonment in 1380 BC . |
| 26 | At the end , everything explained in detail , North turned to the attorney general and said ‘ Since you have n't read me my rights , does this count ? ’ |
| 27 | When Karen arrived at the restaurant that evening , Drew was already there . |
| 28 | Mitch was deeply in conversation with Ana when Maggie walked into the dining-room that night . |
| 29 | When Ruth went into the attic that night she caught Miss Beard standing in front of the mirror , holding a navy muslin dress with a cream lace collar against herself . |
| 30 | On the fourth floor we opened the fire doors and let Fenella go into the corridor first . |