Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Nor did the tide ebb once the horse was unsaddled : Jonjo O'Neill , having weighed in , hoisted the rejected Tony Mullins on to his shoulders , and the diminutive Mrs Hill was lifted into the air by the ecstatic mob . |
2 | This was a shrewd move , which brought Edwin in on their side , and the demand was conceded . |
3 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
4 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
5 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
6 | I had brought my bag with me and I left it in Armstrong along with my wallet , spare cash and watch , just taking enough to pay for a ticket and a towel . |
7 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
8 | Fearing King Henry 's anger his captors kept under the cover of woodland , moving stealthily from one secret hide-out to another , dragging William along with his wound unbandaged and still bleeding . |
9 | I pulled Armstrong in behind his car , got out and joined him by the gate . |
10 | Will made sure she was secure , then lifted a nervously protesting Ellen on to his own horse . |
11 | Olivetti vice chairman Elserino Piol indicated that the Italian firm may also move Destiny — Unix SVR4.2 — as well as UnixWare on to its Alpha hardware in due course . |
12 | Gently , deftly , as if he now knew exactly what to do , Marcus turned Pat on to his back , pulling him slightly toward the centre of the bed and laying his arms out straight beside his body . |
13 | But this wardship of his over the de Breos lands , that 's a plum indeed , and one the King wo n't willingly confide to Richard along with his earldom . |
14 | After a while the captain , much calmer , took Selkirk and Corbett down to his cabin under the fo'castle , a small , dingy room smelling of tar and salt , and containing a simple cot bed , trunk , table and a number of stools . |
15 | I ca n't quite picture Veronica down on her knees with a scrubbing brush . |
16 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |
17 | ‘ Let's have a look at this rash , ’ said the doctor , helping Edward off with his shirt . |
18 | She had so hoped that Josh would like David ‘ He s tired , ’ she apologized , and took Josh off for his afternoon nap He kicked and screamed , furious that his mother 's attention was being distracted from himself . |
19 | We could see the village of Ibsley off to our right so down a side road we trudged and found a cycle repairer — almost every village had one . |
20 | Lennon hauled Ari up by her T-shirt . |
21 | Setting Cassio up for his plots , he so manages to present the image of the faithful friend that — as he predicted Othello would — the dupe actually thanks him : ‘ I humbly thank you for't. i never knew/A Florentine more kind and honest ’ ( III.i.39f . ) . |
22 | Oliver was crouching by the tortoise box , holding Murgatroyd up to his face and murmuring , ‘ It 's my birthday , wish me a happy birthday , Murgatroyd . ’ |
23 | Sunnyvale , California-based massively parallel systems builder MasPar Computer Corp has put the Prism video compression software from Prism Interactive Corp , Wheaton , Illinois up on its machines , and claims that the combination is the first system capable of producing broadcast quality Motion Picture Experts Group-compatible video output in real time . |
24 | The fiend dragged Rex up by his hair . |
25 | The sight of it snapped Marie out of her dreamworld . |
26 | You may take Hector out for his run now . ’ |
27 | At the time I was involved in various things at Philips Records and I asked someone if they knew of anyone who could get David out of his contract , and was told that he knew a man called Tony DeFries who was actually not allowed to practise at the bar — he was a consultant , a trouble-shooter , divorce cases . |
28 | At that moment , she wanted Johnny Latimer out of her house . |
29 | The Second World War forced the United States out of its isolationist past and onto the world stage as the leading capitalist economy . |
30 | But it was too late in the day to get Hungary out of its Axis alliances and it was he who annexed Ruthenia and negotiated the Vienna Award of August 1940 , by which Hitler gave back to Hungary half of Transylvania , including the old regional capital of Kolozsvár ( Cluj ) . |