Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well ? ’ asked Morse at long last . |
| 2 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 3 | ‘ Why is Gilbert so frightened ? ’ asked Cardiff at last . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be very sad to see Middlesbrough without first-class cricket . ’ |
| 5 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 6 | Banned on Mars , realized Jezrael in hysterical irrelevance . |
| 7 | ‘ I began to treat Sheffield like one long party , ’ he once said . |
| 8 | One of the many proposals for using RIS in nuclear physics concerns the mass of the neutrino and its implication in the missing mass of the Universe ( New Scientist , vol 86 , p 308 ) . |
| 9 | We must think Jim of those people as I said that we are responsible for . |
| 10 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 11 | ARA officials met Dzerzhinsky on 12 April to complain about the requisitioning of their supplies . |
| 12 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 13 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 14 | With just over 20 miles to go Curry led Boone by 1.10 , but the less experienced Roe Valley rider was starting to slow , and as they came past the finish line with 16 miles remaining his lead was down to 48 seconds . |
| 15 | Throwing out all those shirts has n't really altered Patrick in any major way , but Judith is happier . |
| 16 | The bases were , in the event , guarded by Eden , who succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in April 1955 . |
| 17 | On descent he met Wanda at 8,300 metres and helped her arrange a bivouac . |
| 18 | And , when she reached the wireless office , men who might resent her being there and fiends who transmitted Morse at devilish speeds … |
| 19 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 20 | Even if CGT applied , the combination of s 80 , FA 1980 ( as amended by s 94(3) , FA 1991 ) means that the application of market value at March 1982 , indexation relief and the £40,000 exemption might well reduce or eliminate CGT on any part deemed to be let . |
| 21 | They 're not all like your PC Palmer , singing Schubert to well-heeled geriatrics in your Sunday concerts . ’ |
| 22 | The big studios boycotted Manhattan for seven months last year , months of wonderful peace . |
| 23 | I hate LA with all my heart , the sooner it falls into the ocean due to a major earthquake the better the world will be . |
| 24 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 25 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 26 | Bucephalus became Alexander 's constant companion for the next eighteen years , and Alexander rode Bucephalus in all the wars and campaigns that were to make his empire larger than any other that had ever preceded it . |
| 27 | I went down to see Will at ten o'clock after |
| 28 | The guard traced his finger down the typed list of names attached to his clipboard , found the name , then asked Whitlock for some kind of identification . |
| 29 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 30 | Lloyd did well to nurse Small through one or two key matches , relying on the bowler 's experience even when not flat out . |