Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 2 | He got off the Mini , he that went flying up street , she came out of the next door . |
| 3 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 4 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 5 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 6 | The pupils have heard about the Jospice — a clinic in Marazan , Honduras , where local nurse Rachel Birch , from St Edward 's parish , works , helping to care for sick and injured people . |
| 7 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 8 | Have you heard about The Chokey ? ’ |
| 9 | So we were gon na go to The Two Mills but I 've heard about the Miller 's Kitchen so I thought , we 'll try it . |
| 10 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 11 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 12 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 13 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 14 | We do not need to wait for the Reeve 's Tale for a fabliau in which the Miller can be identified with a target figure : the Miller 's Tale itself links its dramatic teller , the Miller , with John the carpenter as John repeats the Miller 's axiom found in the Miller 's Prologue : in his own homespun wisdom : — a valuing of ignorance which Nicholas is able to play upon ( 3558 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ If we treated with them , we could gain valuable time — we need to wait for the Hopewell 's return . |
| 16 | We will have to wait for the Donaldson report , which covers the whole country . ’ |
| 17 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | And with two TV networks now competing for a UK cable channel , a similar service is set to take off here by the year 's end . |
| 19 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 20 | At Carrick the Ruffians will be competing for the Lipton Cup , while the cruisers will be in action for the Cardy Castle Cup . |
| 21 | A critical relationship had already developed between the PLO and the Palestinians of the territories . |
| 22 | One witness had disappeared , two more had been intimidated ; doubts were aroused about the ANC 's commitment to the rule of law . |
| 23 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 24 | A REGIONAL councillor , Terry Penny , was stripped of his membership of committees , sub-committees and working parties for three months by a meeting of the full council yesterday because of unruly behaviour and remarks about the Grampian convener , Bob Middleton , and the policy and resources chairman , Morag Morrell . |
| 25 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 26 | distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy . |
| 27 | On about 89 mins Deane put the ball in the net , but the goal was disallowed for a Wallace push on a defender . |
| 28 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 29 | He applied for an MRC scholarship in clinical research at the Gustave-Roussy after seeing the application papers in a friend 's office . |
| 30 | O. Charlton applied for the England job the time Bobby Robson got it and did n't even receive a reply from Lancaster Gate . |