Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Latin America it 's very difficult , as you need someone who wo n't bring up any of the bad guys the US has supported and still does support there when the topic is those dreaded Sandinistas again . |
| 2 | After Cold Higham it crosses Watling Street , runs past the important Iron Age hill-fort of Hunsbury , and reaches the crossing of the Nene at Northampton . |
| 3 | ‘ After Dirty Harry I used to have guys pull up next to me and say : ‘ Hey ! |
| 4 | But his pose as a victim of a harsh literary establishment was utterly essential to his own sense of being and to a craving for young disciples ; for unlike Lewis he seldom enjoyed , for long , or sought to enjoy , the friendship of his contemporaries . |
| 5 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 6 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 7 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 8 | In the case of Latin America it is more complex . |
| 9 | After the Tale of Old Saul I put the catapult to another use , and it became the Killer ; scourge of hamsters , mice and gerbils . |
| 10 | Sihanouk 's plan was unacceptable to Soviet leaders anyway since like the proposal for a neutralisation of contemporary Afghanistan it would imperil the retention of the socialist structure of government in the neutralised state . |
| 11 | Over the bumpy conditions of central Australia he had more to occupy him , flying from Darwin via Daly Waters , Brunette Downs , Cloncurry and Charleville to Melbourne . |
| 12 | This story proves two features of Tory Britain I am constantly emphasising . |
| 13 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 14 | Apart from the industrialists , merchants , and farmers of peripheral Spain it is probable that the main class that benefited from the rise in agricultural prices was the rural bourgeoisie of south , west , and centre . |
| 15 | In most of continental Europe they are not only rare , but conducted with such exquisite politeness that the adjective ‘ hostile ’ seems inappropriate . |
| 16 | However , most county returns contain very few at £300 , let alone £1,000 ; except in the unique circumstances of industrial Suffolk they would form but a tiny group . |
| 17 | As millions flocked to the seaside resorts and holiday camps of postwar Britain they cemented a growth of the holiday market and confirmed the conception of the organized pleasure-seeker , the packaged punter . |
| 18 | Among the Celtic peoples of temperate Europe it was applied to La Tène bronze safety-pins and torcs as well as to prestige objects such as bronze wine flagons . |
| 19 | In his exploration of northern Italy he visited Piacenza , Parma , Modena , Bologna , Ferrara , Verona , Mantua , Milan , Camoglia , Carrara , Pisa , and Leghorn . |
| 20 | As for movies which might use the old gothic mechanisms to haunt the imagination in more complex ways , to plunge you into the real nightmare of history , in the politically and morally conservative world of modern Hollywood it looks like they do n't stand a ghost of a chance |
| 21 | An important consequence of the introduction of mechanical clocks was that in much of western Europe it led to the adoption of the uniform hour of sixty minutes . |
| 22 | as if He 'd have any time for us with the mob of Holy Joes He 's got to see to . |
| 23 | For little Susie you bought Donny Osmond . |
| 24 | For left Paddington he certainly had , at some point , after ringing through to The Randolph to explain his delayed departure . |
| 25 | Ivy was the first to reach her walls , unlike little Virginia she was n't having any nonsense from the proud house . |
| 26 | Like little Samuel it was his duty to trim the lamps of the monastery and keep them burning . |
| 27 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 28 | This was before the Clean Air Act was passed and London smogs had to be breathed to be believed , but all the way up eastern England it was pretty bad . |
| 29 | They managed to average 28 mph ; that 's some going , down the hill towards Welland they touched 60 , up the hill into Great Malvern it was down to a running pace . |
| 30 | ‘ Every time I see you , with young Radcliffe you 're in each other 's arms ! ’ |