Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Wee Blair McAfferty now rides for the DB am team .
2 Promoter Jon Nicholls again managed to bring the cream of Irish music to Australia and New Zealand for the festival .
3 Yet despite all this La Scala soon became the focal point of Milan society and culture .
4 But , although the House had capital status , La Scala always had the advantage of having vital commerce on its doorstep .
5 One called John lived at Cheddington , owning land worth £1 with goods of £20 , another at Linslade , assessed at £2. 6s. 8d. and £6. 13s. 4d. respectively ; either could have been the owner of £1. 6s. 8d. in land at Soulbury , where William Turney also had the same income from land , together with £5 in moveables .
6 Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work .
7 " He had no friends and did not deserve any , A.J.P. Taylor once wrote .
8 JIM MILLS yesterday resigned as manager of the Welsh Rugby League team in protest at his side 's omission from the World Cup , to be staged in Britain in 1995 .
9 NCR Corp yesterday announced enhancements to its Top Eed distributed transaction processing system .
10 He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous .
11 When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ .
12 The associations are anxious that the campaign gain momentum as the March budget rapidly approaches .
13 A ‘ NOXIOUS TWIT ’ one Newfoundland writer once called Paul Watson .
14 On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " .
15 Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe .
16 Home Secretary Kenneth Baker strongly defended his party 's policies on crime .
17 Kenneth Baker yesterday said ‘ well , the Labour Party has n't changed ; they 're still a high spending , high taxation and high borrowing party ’ .
18 This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . "
19 The last thing a child of 15 needed , Frances Crook forcibly suggested , was cell confinement and sensory deprivation .
20 And its LANStreamer MC 32 Adaptor , which eliminates local network bottlenecks , and Person to Person/2 , designed to enable people at remote locations to work together , are among five new local networking OEM products now offered by IBM .
21 But when it 's down mostly to wiggling around a stage in clattering heels there is no time for deep analysis of the psyche of folk who engage in such events and despite a doughty effort , director Ian Kellgren simply does not have enough suitable material to mesh this into any shape worthy of the tag theatre .
22 EEC referendum shabbily confirms that 67 per cent of us say Yes .
23 In addition to misinforming the administration of some of his travel arrangements , in mid-June Sununu also used a White House limousine to make a 200-mile trip to New York to attend a rare stamp auction .
24 Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " .
25 Ivor Warburton generously presented the Mayor with two duplicate nameplates .
26 In his writings Sant' Ambrogio occasionally made reference to the Basilica Vetus , a very early ( perhaps the earliest ) Christian church in Milan .
27 Referees of DOE proposals usually remain anonymous , and Jones could have done so had he wished .
28 A pupil of the anatomist John Hunter , Van Butchell later practised as a highly successful dentist before becoming an eminent truss-maker , specializing in the treatment of fistula .
29 As he left Number 10 , Ian Gilmour sourly summed up the changes by saying they were ‘ not much good if you are steering full-speed ahead for the rocks ’ .
30 On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ .
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