Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 2 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 3 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |
| 4 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 5 | Moreover , the argument goes , OUP has — contrary to expectations in some quarters — done rather well since Sir Roger took over the reins . |
| 6 | IT was said here yesterday that Vic Reeves , the Darlington alternative comedian ( that is somebody who does n't make you laugh which is alternative to a comedian ) was the sole North-East recipient of a gong at the BAFTA awards the other night . |
| 7 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 8 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 9 | The goat suddenly trotted eagerly forward and Mrs Hollidaye had to run to keep hold of the leather strap . |
| 10 | He dialled the Athene office again , and was told once more that Alexandra Maitland was not available . |
| 11 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 12 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 13 | Dalglish then handed over Livingstone and £400,000 to Chelsea in return for England Under-21 midfielder Le Saux , 24 , who has played only once since Dave Webb took charge at Stamford Bridge . |
| 14 | As John Coffin had listened to Jordan 's voice , he had a clear picture of the scene being summoned up so that Phil Jordan must be more of an actor than he had supposed . |
| 15 | No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang . |
| 16 | She is Clara Hale , known mostly just as Mother Hale , and since she first laid a row of cots across the living room of her flat on 122nd Street in Harlem in 1943 , she has become the Mother Teresa of New York 's black slums . |
| 17 | And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa . |
| 18 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
| 19 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 20 | The protest in Tianjin was perhaps yet another indication of things to come over two years later when respect for the Party had declined still further and Deng Xiaoping had little support left among young intellectuals . |
| 21 | Jack and Dieter had stated quite clearly that Alain Gebrec had been lying on the rocks below the belvedere . |