Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 2 | It was the route by which Buddhism reached China , and down which Kubla Khan swept south . |
| 3 | They would , in return , assign not only their Polaris submarines , but also their V-bombers and tactical nuclear delivery systems to NATO , subject to the usual overriding proviso : ‘ except where Her Majesty 's Government may decide that the supreme national interests are at stake . |
| 4 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 5 | Earlier this year WEKA decided to close down its UK publishing operation and a number of titles , appealing to a broad spectrum of business and hobby readers , were put up for sale . |
| 6 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 7 | Schroders , the merchant banking group , shut down its Schroder Discount subsidiary last year after two years , while Westpac Banking Corp also closed its invoice discounting operation last year . |
| 8 | RIVALS : Sridevi ( above ) turned down her Hollywood chance , so she could score over Madhuri Dixit ( left ) |
| 9 | I am a great admirer of Vernon Handley too , especially his Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony , the Guildhall String Ensemble in Stravinksy 's Apollo , Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 by Andrew Litton ( who is wonderful to work with ) , and also my work with Sir Charles Mackerras . |
| 10 | There is an attractive painting of Orpheus by V. V. Reiner and some noteworthy works by Kern , especially his St John on Patmos . |
| 11 | For humour there was Ian Ford 's rat tool , and below it Lee Dickenson 's Kirchen carver |
| 12 | Leicester 's highly-rated young lock , Martin Johnson , whose decisive second-half try set up the Midlands 16-13 win over the North , played down his England prospects . |
| 13 | Nick stayed with Marsh for four years , but as the Australian started to wind down his US operation , the baseball-glove specialist looked for pastures new . |
| 14 | However , the Scot has had successive deciding-frame victories here in Belgium and perhaps his Wembley success may turn out to be another false dawn as he chases his first ranking title of an erratic season . |
| 15 | It is a record that still stands , is even in he Guinness Book of Records and is unlikely to be broken . |
| 16 | The Marine in the statue is lightly loaded , carrying only his SLR rifle , radio and pouches . |
| 17 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction represents perhaps what Christine Brooke-Rose was aiming at , not in philosophical or even aesthetic terms , but as narratives which combine readability and lively story-telling with intellectual themes . |
| 18 | This is pretty much what Charles Exley , chairman of NCR , is doing to his shareholders . |
| 19 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had forgotten to tell Urquhart what had gone on during the day , especially what Marek Nowak had told her and the disastrous arrest of Taczek . |
| 20 | So what Richard Nixon should really have discussed with George Allen was how to set about reforming the wretched business of campaign finance . |
| 21 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 22 | They did n't often get roast meat , only what Auntie Lou called ‘ Done Down ’ , which was the remains of the joint after Mr Evans had finished with it , minced up with bread and gravy browning . |
| 23 | ‘ Only what Mrs Lavender has told me herself . ’ |
| 24 | Only our London intelligence people know of the safe house . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll come visit , bring along our Auntie Megan . ’ |
| 26 | EVER fancied swopping places with the man in the overalls caressing the regulator from inside your SLR viewfinder ? |
| 27 | Perhaps our Barcelona hero will soon return ! |
| 28 | ‘ Us ’ being all us Joe Punters , ’ Jamie said . |
| 29 | One of the keenest tussles will be in the women 's 50 metres , when the holder , Ruth Williams , takes on her Darlington clubmate , Helen Blanchard . |
| 30 | Sparc chip set house Nimbus Technologies Inc last week was getting set to acknowledge what is already street gossip : that Cypress Semiconductor Corp , or rather its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , got Nimbus off the ground with an initial ‘ joint development ’ investment round about $1.5m . |