Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [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 | He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Home Secretary Kenneth Baker strongly defended his party 's policies on crime . |
| 13 | Kenneth Baker yesterday said ‘ well , the Labour Party has n't changed ; they 're still a high spending , high taxation and high borrowing party ’ . |
| 14 | This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " . |
| 18 | Ivor Warburton generously presented the Mayor with two duplicate nameplates . |
| 19 | In his writings Sant' Ambrogio occasionally made reference to the Basilica Vetus , a very early ( perhaps the earliest ) Christian church in Milan . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’ |
| 23 | SUPERFIT body-builder Bernard Ayre just managed to gasp out ‘ I love you ’ as he collapsed dying in his wife 's arms . |
| 24 | And Patrick Lundy suddenly understood . |
| 25 | Director Roger Mills even retained a quip from Alan Whicker ( whom the presenter consulted ) about a Bernard Levin series in which the pretence of solitude was attempted . |
| 26 | The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) . |
| 27 | Seventeen year old Ian Vickers again impressed all , winning three of the four super division events . |
| 28 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 29 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 30 | Wings Steve Hackney of Leicester and Northampton 's Harvey Thorneycroft both scored a hat-trick of tries as England B began their tour of New Zealand with a crushing 68–4 win against North Otago . |