Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 2 | Snow rarely fell hard during the day . |
| 3 | Ramsey presumably leant out for a breath of air . |
| 4 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 5 | KERRY Matthew ran the race of her life on Saturday only to finish agonisingly outside the English Schools Championships qualifying time . |
| 6 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 7 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 8 | His digital watch and the clock on the wall of the administration building foyer tallied at three precisely when Manville finally strolled in through the glass swing doors and headed for the reception desk . |
| 9 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 10 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 11 | TYCOON Richard Branson yesterday came up with the Christmas present for the person who has everything — the chance to pilot a jumbo jet . |
| 12 | Roberts usually spoke favourably of the development of the army , while recognising its deficiencies in equipment . |
| 13 | Antony still stood patiently in the background . |
| 14 | MANCHESTER City chairman Peter Swales yesterday hit out at the eight Premier League clubs who torpedoed the £13 million Bass sponsorship deal . |
| 15 | ‘ McAndrew also worked hard for the club . ’ |
| 16 | Substitute Andy Payton also weighed in with a brace after the interval . |
| 17 | The script was stodgy , with the only highlights being the video of the Duffer of St George at work ( a classic ) , and watching the fashion elite go quiet when Marks & Spencer nearly walked off with an award . |
| 18 | Helen and Edward now met frequently on the Common , and she visited her father 's grave with him as he tended it with wild flowers . |
| 19 | Lucy now teaches all over the world and received the ASSET Achievement Award . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said last night : ‘ Miss Wright simply walked out of the hospital at 2pm on May 23 and has not been seen since . ’ |
| 21 | ’ Miss Wright simply walked out of the hospital at 2pm on Sunday , May 23 , and has not been seen since . |
| 22 | In 1984 , Ceauşescu almost went home in a huff from Greece when even Andreas Papandreou 's government balked at awarding the highest honours twice over . |
| 23 | Intent and unafraid , Dr. Sylvia Earle never turns back from a challenge . |
| 24 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 25 | Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees . |
| 26 | IF EAST GERMANY finally sets out on the path to reform without further bloodshed and repression , it will be largely thanks to the efforts of the Protestant church . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd have thought so , ’ he said , and Maureen went on , ‘ He did n't remember anything after falling asleep but they got married right away and Beryl just lay around like an invalid until the baby was born six months later . ’ |
| 28 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 29 | In practice there were so many calls on the United States throughout the world that Washington easily fell back into the habit of treating Britain as a modern " Figaro " whose services could be called upon here , there and almost anywhere from Europe to South-East Asia . |
| 30 | He struck out in a powerful crawl and Maggie finally climbed shakily from the pool . |