Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 2 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 3 | Mike Morley seen here leaving the high Court recorded the interview between Nilsen and a top psychologist at Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight last September . |
| 4 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 5 | ‘ In the hospital , ’ Odilo keeps dourly replying . |
| 6 | Herr Gottwald died still dogging his master 's heels |
| 7 | Lisburn 's Paul McBurney looked good winning the 200 metres in 21.17 and he clocked the fastest time when his club took the 4x400 relay in 3.32.3 . |
| 8 | When Ivan went home clutching Sylvie 's address in his hand , Sylvie left too . |
| 9 | Second , the revised theory of democracy in this version includes ‘ the vital fact of leadership ’ , by which Schumpeter means mainly competing individual leaders who use elite groups to manipulate or , as he puts it , to manufacture the collective will . |
| 10 | Marx and Engels wrote little resembling modern political science , although Marx penned prolific journalistic accounts of contemporary politics . |
| 11 | ‘ Susan will be sorry to have missed you — it 's a pity you have to leave so soon , ’ Richard said hesitantly ushering Simon out of his office , and his life , forever . |
| 12 | ( Fatty , Louise and Marlon walk away laughing leaving Ant wearing the bin-liner and holding the shorts . ) |
| 13 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 14 | Once incorporated into Muscovy , the Ukraine radiated deeply unsettling currents of thought . |
| 15 | May : Railcar No. 16 at Donegal Station : June : ‘ Meenglas ’ and ‘ Columcille ’ standing amongst the weeds at Strabane , 1964 : July : Trailer No. 2 and Van No. 12 being turned on the turntable at Killybegs : August : 1958 view of Strabane looking northwards showing the track layout and rolling stock there : September : Loco No. 3 ( Lydia ) receiving attention at Strabane : October : Railcar No. 14 at Strabane : November : ‘ Columcille ’ shunting coaching stock at Strabane : December : Articulated railcar No. 19 standing outside the overall roof of Killybegs Station . |
| 16 | Relations between Georgia and Russia deteriorated sharply following Russian reports that a Russian Mi-8T helicopter had been shot down on Dec. 14 , on its way back from delivering humanitarian aid to the town of Tkvarcheli in the Abkhazia autonomous region . |
| 17 | Nell finished tightly tucking in the last strand of hair , and pulled on a black woollen balaclava before snuggling down into her sleeping bag , turning her face to the fuselage wall . |
| 18 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |
| 19 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
| 20 | Satisfied that she was safely hidden from view , Benny began swiftly examining the drums for labels that might give her a clue as to what was in them . |
| 21 | On its completion in 1994 , the plant will supply 16,500 tonnes — 8m gallons — of ice-cream a year to the seven Baskin-Robbins stores already trading in Moscow , St Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod . |
| 22 | MARK ‘ HUBBA HUBBA ’ CASWELL denies ever playing one in his life ( that 's my story and I 'm sticking to it — Corky ) , but he volunteered for this job quickly enough … |
| 23 | Mildred stomped away feeling desperate . |
| 24 | As Zen stood there fiddling with the crucifix , the end of the upright suddenly came away cleanly in his hand and he saw that it was hollow and that the lower part of the shaft contained a heavy rectangular pack about two centimetres long connected to a wire running back into the shaft and disappearing through a small hole into the figure of Christ . |
| 25 | Karen stood there filling a glass of water . |
| 26 | ENGLAND swept aside defending champions Ireland at Hoylake yesterday to stay on course for their first men 's amateur Home International title for four years . |
| 27 | All the same , there is something irritating about the way Phil sits there taking everything so much for granted — his presence in the house , Howard 's discretion in the report , even the coffee . |
| 28 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 29 | Export-led growth will — if it works — be boosted by a tariff-cutting programme due to start in June ; after Brazil and Argentina began gingerly reducing their tariffs in 1987 , trade between them increased from $1.35 billion that year to $2 billion in 1990 . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough peacemaker Alan Kernaghan wrapped his arms around Quinn as Wilkinson walked away rubbing his jaw . |