Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 2 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 3 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 6 | RANGERS , having won the Battle of Britain by beating Leeds to progress to the Champions League , begin their quest to successfully invade Europe against Marseille at Ibrox tonight . |
| 7 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 8 | UK firm VisionWare Ltd , Leeds , is enhancing XVision , its X-Windows-under-Microsoft Windows software , to support Novell Inc NetWare , thereby allowing Univel Inc UnixWare application servers to integrate with NetWare-based personal computer networks . |
| 9 | Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations . |
| 10 | ‘ Almost due north of Koraloona is Hodges Island , named after the painter who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage , then went on to paint India for Warren Hastings . |
| 11 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 12 | Narrowly escaping the hostile intentions of the awakened populace , they eventually bore Mildred into Canterbury amid great rejoicing . |
| 13 | Benedicta , before we go on to meet Simon in the Fleet prison , there are certain enquiries to make . |
| 14 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 15 | Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls . |
| 16 | She instinctively shielded Ari with her arm , drawing her close to her body . |
| 17 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 18 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 19 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 20 | Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division . |
| 21 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 22 | However , the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo province protested that the proposed constitution would effectively strip Kosovo of the special autonomous status conferred on it ( within the Serbian republic ) in the 1974 Yugoslavian Constitution . |
| 23 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 24 | Democracy , then , in Syracuse , Akragas and elsewhere , meant the rule of a prosperous agricultural class , which did not necessarily regard Carthage as an enemy , or benevolent co-existence with Carthage as a sin . |
| 25 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 26 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 27 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 28 | These telecoms authorities apparently regarded IBM as members of their purchasing club for computers . |
| 29 | she feels he is common , poor boy and he does n't even realise that Miss Havisham is actually only using Estella as a tool , a beautiful tool , to break men 's hearts and to get her revenge on the male sex . |
| 30 | Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B. |