Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 2 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 3 | Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations . |
| 4 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 5 | After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak . |
| 6 | Dad had complained about the threatening telephone call and no action had been taken ; but the man had obviously reported Russell to the police and here they were in force to arrest him . |
| 7 | So says Christ to the church in Philadelphia . |
| 8 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 9 | Indeed , Tan not only confirms Corbett at the level of the Court of Appeal , but extends it beyond marriage into , it appears , a case of general application , an outcome which Ormrod J. may not have intended or desired . |
| 10 | And Allison revealed : ‘ Ekstrom only joined Gothenburg on the understanding that he is allowed to talk to other clubs interested in buying him . |
| 11 | So to identify Ratner with the flyboys of the Eighties is unfair on what was a far more strategic expansion than was theirs . |
| 12 | One time , he patiently informed Ira about the Navaho code talkers . |
| 13 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 14 | Churchill , a strong Zionist supporter , had fiercely condemned MacDonald in the Commons in 1938 and continued his verbal assault afterwards in the Division Lobby of the House of Commons . |
| 15 | The British became a dominant influence in Persian life during the nineteenth century ; but to this day many Persians believe that Britain merely exploited Persia for the sake of India throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | Of course , you only get UB for the days you are unemployed . |
| 17 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 18 | Rachaela could only take Ruth to the school in the mornings ; at least she saw her to the gates . |
| 19 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 20 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 21 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 22 | Gorbachev eventually proved willing not only to condemn Stalin for the imprisonment and execution of loyal Russians in the 1930s , but also to concede that Stalin had secretly divided eastern Europe with Hitler in 1939 . |
| 23 | Bangor 's Garth McGimpsey was in sparkling form , but it still was n't good enough to overcome Cork in the final , going down 3–2 . |
| 24 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 25 | Uncle Mick stood up ; so did Denis on the altar . |
| 26 | So linkage would not only turn Saddam into the colossus of the Gulf . |
| 27 | Athelstan gently nudged Philomel through the press around the bridge . |
| 28 | If not does it mean that we only have Dorigo on the left . |
| 29 | Bryony spoke with the contemptuous sharpness which had so alienated Caro at the beginning . |
| 30 | Their other purpose was apparently to bring Israel into the war ( probably entraining Israeli violation of Jordanian territory or at least its airspace ) , in the expectation that no Arab government could risk fighting on the Israeli side . |