Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went from Lambeth Pier to Chelsea Harbour yesterday to visit an exhibition by the Royal Society of British Sculptors . |
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| 6 | AS THE pound continued to sink , moving below the symbolic DM2.95 figure on the foreign exchanges , and shares plummeted , Nigel Lawson yesterday went into retreat at his Leicestershire constituency home to draft tomorrow 's make-or-break speech for the Conservative conference . |
| 7 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 8 | THE Government was forced to make an embarrassing about-turn over the Maastricht bill yesterday to head off a damaging defeat at the hands of an alliance of Tory Euro-rebels and opposition parties . |
| 9 | Soviet miners are going to Scotland Yard tomorrow to give the fraud squad details of Arthur Scargill 's alleged mishandling of a £1 million gift . |
| 10 | It has been an uphill battle ever since his father sent a tearful 11-year-old from the security of his Benin City home to board at West Buckland public school in Devon . |
| 11 | Microsoft Corp did n't wait for Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSelect unit actually to announce its Windows-under-Unix Wabi system before taking retaliatory action ( CI No 2,1620 . |
| 12 | It took girlfriend Alicia Plaistow several minutes to persuade him to climb out of the tub at his Florida holiday home to take a call from the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 13 | SOTHEBY 'S ceramics valuation specialist Jeremy Rye will be at their Chester office today to give free advice on saleroom values . |
| 14 | Britain 's oldest fighter pilots , all aged between 90 and 100 , will hold their final full reunion on Salisbury Plain tomorrow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps . |
| 15 | Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children . |
| 16 | Ivanisevic double-faulted twice to go 0-30 down , then served an apparent fault — but it was called an ace . |
| 17 | So intrigued did Charlie become by these seemingly endless selling opportunities that he started to take a tram up to the West End on a Sunday morning just to see for himself . |
| 18 | PAUL HODKINSON , who recently feared that he would never box again , returns to action in front of his home-town supporters at Kirkby Sports Centre tonight to defend his European featherweight title against Farid Benredjeb of France . |
| 19 | TODAY reporter BEN BACON went to the Highbury area yesterday to give those fans a platform to express their opinions about the alarming decline . |
| 20 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 21 | PROTESTORS gathered at a Merseyside dock yesterday to campaign against coal imports and pit closures . |
| 22 | INDIAN police surrounded a housing estate in a Bombay suburb yesterday to flush out two gunmen wanted for last Friday 's series of bombings in the city in which at least 250 people died . |
| 23 | HUNDREDS converged on the little village of Grey Abbey recently to celebrate the founding of its Cistercian church years ago . |
| 24 | I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know . |
| 25 | Up to 300,000 Muslims marched on the Algiers Parliament yesterday to demonstrate against ‘ threats to Islam ’ . |
| 26 | On July 23 Bush signalled US willingness partially to relax the ban on Iraqi oil exports , saying that the USA was " not going to see the suffering of innocent women or children " . |
| 27 | ROBERT Woodside won the final round of the Northern Ireland hillclimb championship at Cairncastle on the Antrim coast yesterday to secure the title for the first time . |
| 28 | In a statement issued on July 2 Bush said that it would remain US policy neither to confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons , but that " where we 've said we do n't have those weapons on board , we mean it " . |
| 29 | However , the Government is unlikely to allow the Ryan affair further to upset Anglo-Irish relations . |
| 30 | Cook food thoroughly to destroy bacterial cells . |