Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
| 2 | Scotland 's uncertainty was matched by that of Buhagiar , who was booked in the final minute of the first half for bringing down Nevin . |
| 3 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 4 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 5 | He was also responsible for bringing in Lazlo Kovaks , the cinematographer whose filming of the American landscape brought untold dimensions to the movie itself ; he also joined later in the selection of another of the film 's major plus-points — the magnificent scoring and numbers performed by Steppenwolf , the Byrds , the Jimi Hendrix Experience , the Electric Prunes , Electric Flag , the Band , the Holy Mondal Rounders , Fraternity of Man , Little Eva and Roger McGuin . |
| 6 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 7 | ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions . |
| 8 | While the remorseless Soviet military build-up continued to give Defence powerful arguments for keeping up Britain 's Defence forces , the failure of the British economy to grow in the enervating climate of the Welfare State progressively eroded Britain 's military strength . |
| 9 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 10 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 11 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |
| 12 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 13 | Mike Galloway joined them later after pulling back Dundee skipper Dodds . |
| 14 | Fear of this confusion of values was still so real for the Reverend Alexander Cruden in the late eighteenth century that , not content with defining and illustrating the term from biblical texts , he added two paragraphs of solemn warning : Yet there is a cure , if men recognize divine omniscience : Cruden is echoing Christ 's words in Luke 's gospel , as Milton had done in Paradise Lost , after describing how Satan 's disguise deceived the archangel Uriel : Drawing on a pagan tradition , Montaigne passed a similar judgement on lying : ‘ To say that a man lieth , is as much as to say … that he is brave towards God , and a Coward towards Men . ’ |
| 15 | Unbeaten Surrey , setting the pace at the top of the table , were left with a target of 242 in 34 overs after bowling out Essex for 153 — and after some spectacular hitting required just 64 off 12½ overs when the skies opened up . |
| 16 | Chapman & Hall became his sole publishers in 1840 , after buying out Macrone ( publisher of Sketches by Boz ) and Bentley ( publisher of Oliver Twist ) . |
| 17 | But Boro assistant manager John Pickering persuaded linesman Graham Grandridge to change his mind after pointing out Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph lying on the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been pretty horrific for everyone watching , ’ Croft apologised after grinding down Alison Smith 6-4 6-7 6-3 to reach the second round of the Volkswagen National championships . |
| 19 | A High Court jury ruled in his favour after hearing how Dr Houston , 47 , made claims in front of staff and patients that Dr Smith had sexually harassed her . |
| 20 | After showing how Galloway Lochs had become acidified , Battarbee has now produced similar evidence for 17 Scottish lochs , 5 English and 8 Welsh lakes . |
| 21 | Britain were relegated from the World Group in 1987 after playing both Mexico and Yugoslavia away on clay and , following two unsuccessful attempts , they beat both Poland in Warsaw and Austria in Manchester last year to win back their place among the world 's top 16 tennis nations . |
| 22 | After setting up NARCOG 's listening post in Larnaca , training the Cypriot police to use their UN-funded radio equipment , fitting out police boats ' and King Edmondo with satellite tracking gear and installing short-wave transmitters in Beirut and Larnaca for DEA intelligence traffic , Coleman had acquired something of a reputation in the area of advanced electronics . |
| 23 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 24 | A tip for threading up Silver Reed or Knitmaster machines . |
| 25 | Use the pass on the day of your choice as often as you like between the places of interest , and your will find that it is the most enjoyable way of seeing arguably Europe 's most exciting city ! |
| 26 | For the Profitboss it is the most compassionate way of easing out Hugh Clarkson , the dyed-in-the-wool western region sales manager who 's had enough but ca n't afford to admit it . |
| 27 | Six years of bringing up Charlotte and Luke with chicken wire tacked across inside their bedroom window , and a security system worthy of Alcatraz so that the parishioners who needed to get to you never could . |
| 28 | The paramilitaries felt , quite rightly as it turned out , that the politicians would use them when it suited them and then reject them once the threat of anarchy had achieved the desired end of bringing down Brian Faulkner . |
| 29 | And Ryan came in and she went oh , she went , I just learned who did er , your er little bit of hairstyling there Ryan . |
| 30 | The members agreed at their January meeting on a six-month transitional budget to cover the period of winding down COMECON . |