Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations .
2 After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak .
3 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 .
4 So to identify Ratner with the flyboys of the Eighties is unfair on what was a far more strategic expansion than was theirs .
5 Of course , you only get UB for the days you are unemployed .
6 So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings .
7 Keeper Neville Southall , the most capped keeper in Welsh history , believes the Belgians will be scared just seeing Giggs among the substitutes .
8 More importantly , he was not tonsured : Lothar , perhaps moved by the obligations of a godfather , could not bring himself thus to exclude Charles from the ranks of the throneworthy .
9 The aesthetic inventions of the South Seas and Australia have their own value as a communication with the invisible and represent a last witness of the more ancient cultures that somehow linked Asia with the shores of the American continent .
10 If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels .
11 If you wish to donate your goods to the NCT anyway just write NCT on the labels .
12 But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law .
13 Twice a week , with equal fidelity , she went to the Rectory , partly for poultry conversations with Mrs Chamberlin , and partly to play Mowgli with the children whom she had introduced to the Jungle Books with wild success .
14 Australia now play Canada in the quarter-finals , while Pakistan , for whom Jahangir Khan has thundered his way through five matches with the loss of only 25 points , meet Egypt .
15 It is worth recalling that there were some three hundred autonomous legislative powers in what we now call Germany in the years during which the war took place , 1618–1648 .
16 England will now play Ghana in the semi-finals on Wednesday and Brazil , 3–0 winners over the USA , take on Australia .
17 Given that the planning margin ( spare generating capacity above maximum demand ) could be trimmed from its present high value of 28 per cent , there is then no case , as the CEGB itself admits , for immediately building Sizewell on the grounds that the board will be short of capacity without it .
18 In 1973 the Libyan leader , Gaddafi , indirectly attacked Egypt for the concessions it had made .
19 Whether or not third States are finally included as indirectly injured States in the terms of Draft Article 5 ( 3 ) , development of international law in this respect is crucial to an examination of the rights and obligations of third parties .
20 Martin then asked Drew about the trousers which had mysteriously , if not conveniently , disappeared in Reading , to show up later on the tour .
21 The Irishman swung himself into the saddle , then followed Sharpe in the footsteps of the Highlanders .
22 P.C. Foster took down the relevant particulars and then escorted Woolridge to the cells .
23 Jonathan smiled and then kicked Rex between the legs .
24 GRAMPS is gallantly propelling JANET around the flowerbeds .
25 Žižka went on successfully to defend Bohemia from the crusades which were preached against the Hussites who , by this time , had acquired a thoroughly democratic and Protestant cast .
26 After so many hours , lives , speeches spent , Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : ‘ Deliver Helen , and all damage else — As honour , loss of time , travail expense , Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this comorant war — Shall be struck off . ’
27 He said he tried previously to warn MacQuillan of the risks he was running .
28 However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration .
29 Another ex-Head Girl who now taught was Nellie Nixon , commonly called Nellie of the Knobbles because she was so thin that her muscles stood out .
30 Bede specifically excludes Kent from the kingdoms south of the Humber which he regarded as subject to Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) ( see above , p. 43 ) .
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