Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 2 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 3 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 4 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |
| 5 | Unfortunately having the son of the most powerful man in the world did n't seem to do the Eagles much good — they stumbled against Argentina and finally fell flat on their faces when they met Tonga in the Plate quarter-final . |
| 6 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 7 | He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT . |
| 8 | When Arsenal met Hull in the Cup semi-final in 1930 , and were 2–0 down with ten minutes to go , Chapman 's ordeal on the bench grew to a fever-pitch of intensity . |
| 9 | On Friday at school he passed Nutty in the corridor and gave her a fierce stare to remind her about their appointment and she said , ‘ I have n't forgotten , ’ in an aggrieved voice . |
| 10 | " Can I top you up , Mr Willoughby ? " asked Lucy in the most polished social manner that anyone could desire , and soon the Magistrate was drinking his third cup of hot water , and still gazing at her in fascination , or to be more precise , at the back of her neck , which was the part of her which most interested him . |
| 11 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 12 | They met Colebrooke in the passageway outside , thanked him for his attentions and went down the outside steps into the Tower bailey . |
| 13 | It was there that he rode Evichstar in the Lincoln Handicap in 1990 — and notched his first big race victory . |
| 14 | Her name was Penelope but she quickly became Penny in the factory . |
| 15 | Sally left her bag in the cloakroom and met Edward in the balcony milk bar where he had a strawberry milk shake waiting for her . |
| 16 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 17 | I want to knee David in the bollocks at least once today ? |
| 18 | Only about a dozen canoeists , including Richard and Paul , have conquered Sgwd-yr-Eira in the Brecon beacons Paul broke three ribs when the pair achieved the feat in January . |
| 19 | Anastasia plays Lika in The Promise . |
| 20 | I have included Equuleus in the map with Delphinus . |
| 21 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 22 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 23 | Onlooker the Rev Brian Rice , social responsibilities officer for the county council and keen football supporter , commented to the senior fire officer : ‘ I thought it was a canary from Norwich City on its way to frighten Sunderland in the FA Cup semi-final next month . ’ |
| 24 | Sarah Jayne Miskelly , who joins McNamee in the Ulster squad for the Junior Interprovincial Championships in Dublin on Saturday , maintained a strong Darragh Cross presence in the Vi-Sport schools event by taking the girls title . |
| 25 | And the ice men from Milton keynes are through to the final of the Autumn trophy they beat Swindon in the semi-final |
| 26 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 27 | When Hari returned home , she found William in the workshop hammering leather soles on to a pair of small boots . |
| 28 | Without him Arsenal beat Chelsea in the opening round , but then faced a crisis when Birmingham forced a draw at Highbury in the next round . |
| 29 | A sample of youth in north Germany interviewed in the late 1950s still revealed significant traces of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ : he had done much good in abolishing unemployment , punishing sexual criminals , constructing the motorways , introducing cheap radio sets , establishing the Labour Service , and reinstating Germany in the esteem of the world . |
| 30 | I entered Whacker in the book and |