Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |
| 2 | It also has three good , markedly dissimilar towns in Bayonne , Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz ; and a little inland , mercifully , a motorway from France into northern Spain which drains off from the coast the nuisance of merely transient cars and people . |
| 3 | You should certainly cross the border ( remember the passports ) for a taste of the Vorarlberg , and particularly of Bregenz , squeezed into that tiny corner of Austria which intrudes on to the Bodensee between Switzerland and Germany . |
| 4 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
| 5 | Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London . |
| 6 | It spans the Laxford River which comes down from a string of lochs alongside the Lairg road and is notable for salmon fishing . |
| 7 | The opera season opens here in July and August and , for those with a penchant for history , the old Roman settlement of Ascoli Piceno nearby offers many folklore events and a grand-costumed tournament in August which dates back to the 1300s . |
| 8 | John is n't satisfied with it , we are bogged down , and finally it is Campbell who comes up with a plausible route through drunken , volatile shifts of feeling . |
| 9 | Sunglasses and cheekbones still in place , Clint herself ambles out of the shop , chewing on an olive-bread . |
| 10 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 11 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 12 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 13 | One of the surprise contestants who have a chance to win £5,000 and a trip to Hollywood to take part in American Gladiators is Derek Collett from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire who weighs in at a mere 11st 10lb . |