Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you get the impression here of Lincoln talking about an unusual crisis situation in a letter to one of his mates in eighteen sixty four Lincoln goes on Lincoln goes on to , in his letter to a friend to deny that civil war was fought to , to free the slaves er as a moral crusade , he wants no part of that argument . |
| 2 | ON THE BAWL : David Kelly shouts down Steve Walsh |
| 3 | In the Truffaut interview book , Hitchcock agrees when Truffaut suggests it was a forward zoom ( ie zoom-in ) combined with a reverse tracking shot . |
| 4 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
| 5 | Don Carleton describes how Bill Larnach , Bristol 's retiring University Marshal , brought the wit and tough wisdom of his birthplace , and some more operatic splendours , to generations of Engineering students . |
| 6 | City : L'Oreal rules out Nestle bid |
| 7 | PLO blows up Boeing 747 in Jordan . |
| 8 | This little episode shows how Norman regarded the stress which accompanies any art form when it has been seriously undertaken . |
| 9 | Flick of a switch opens up Europe |
| 10 | GGT cleans up Cussons work |
| 11 | Carol Mitchell from the area training department helps out Mark Oyelowo on his first day at the checkout |
| 12 | Roy Wright tries out Marks and Spencer 's top tipples |
| 13 | Roy Wright tries out Marks and Spencer 's top tipples |
| 14 | This highly selective buying explains why Matisse 's mainstream work has performed disappointingly . |
| 15 | Whitty sums up Hine 's argument thus : |
| 16 | As the interview winds up Bruce Foxton is complaining bitterly about yer' man 's Nigel Mansell impersonation going over Vauxhall Bridge . |
| 17 | Last minute shocker wipes out Hastings ' one man show |
| 18 | A happy holiday course in a sublime setting sums up Ufford Park nicely . |
| 19 | HQ switch : The headquarters base of Middlesbrough council 's housing and community services department switches on April 6 from the 16th and 17th floors of Corporation House to the first floor . |
| 20 | The ‘ Jungled Up To F— ’ mix brings in XTC ( ho ho ) of Manchester 's Mix Factory to remix and get down with some roughneck business . |
| 21 | WHEC teaches more SCOTVEC modules than any other secondary school in Scotland , and 51 modules were assessed across a range of cognate groups . |
| 22 | It has become commonplace to observe that the precious yet precarious Churchill Ian , stiff-upper-lip culture which only materializes in the midst of national adversity — underneath the arches , down in the air-raid shelters where Britannia enjoyed her finest hours — is something from which blacks are excluded . |
| 23 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 24 | Michael Powell sizes up Marius Goring and Moira Shearer for The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) |
| 25 | Kieran has now Rostrevor home to Dublin for six months where he intends , as he puts it , to ‘ lie low ’ for a while , writing songs and preparing for his and Frances 's second album . |
| 26 | In Conversation A , the British-born speaker Brenda uses both London English and Creole , but shows what seems to be differential behaviour in responding towards her father ( F ) and her brother ( L ) , for example , in A-3 : |
| 27 | Saint Simon describes how Louis XIV 's adored granddaughter-in-law , the Duchesse de Bourgogne , was standing in conversation with the King , while a maid lifted her skirt from behind and discreetly gave her an enema . |
| 28 | Champion Hodkinson blows away Benichou to retain title |
| 29 | The examination of this issue leads both Meadow ( 1980 ) and Freeman , Carbin and Boese ( 1981 ) to similar conclusions . |
| 30 | Peter Bourne recounts how Carlos Rafael Rodriguez , visiting Moscow in December 1962 to negotiate an economic agreement for the following year , had lengthy private meetings with Khrushchev and Mikoian , at which they expressed their surprise at Fidel 's reaction and gave assurance that there had been no intention to offend him . |