Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peace campaigners were on trial for cutting a fence and painting a B52 bomber at RAF Fairford.Protesters supporting them were outside the court in Cirencester . |
| 2 | Frank Packman tries his running skills at full-back in place of Hunter with Ben Ward succeeding him on the right . |
| 3 | Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship . |
| 4 | Neil Webb and Danny Wallace will also figure , while the foreign players will be Brian McClair , Mark Hughes and Peter Schmeichel , with assimilated players Ryan Giggs and Denis Irwin joining them . |
| 5 | The bookmakers clearly believe Salsabil has the speed to win the 1,000 Guineas , William Hill putting her in at 16-1 for the Newmarket Classic . |
| 6 | No — she did n't want to be locked away to die , yet as she rushed across the square she escaped death by inches from a dog-cart without noticing it , the magnet that was Christie Goldsborough drawing her in a straight line , through brick walls if need be , to get at him . |
| 7 | Hollywood tough guy Arnold Schwarzenegger admitting he is constantly upstaged by his wife Maria Shriver . |
| 8 | He went to the podium , reportedly pushing aside deputy general secretary Volodymyr Ivashko who tried to restrain him , after hearing fierce criticism , including a speech by Russian Federation Communist Party ( CP ) leader Ivan Polozkov accusing him of " abandoning the party " and criticizing the lack of harsh measures to restore order . |
| 9 | They were only upstaged by Tim Stockdale and Philip Heffer , who dressed as Show-Jumping ‘ Groupies ’ , with poor Franke Sloothaak proving he can run fast when he needs to . |
| 10 | ‘ When is Miss Grimsilk leaving us , Willi ? |
| 11 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 12 | United got off to a flyer with Richard Hill giving them a lead after just eight minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ And is Miss Alexander helping you with your work ? ’ |
| 14 | Mandy did n't come to the meeting , Mrs. Maddison keeping her at home as a punishment for her disobedience in going into the swamp . |
| 15 | Has Collimore outside him and Collimore drives his cross in and is cleared by Hill Thomson playing it back in , difficult one for Greyson and he was a little bit fortunate I think there to find Thomson who 's given it away anyway . |
| 16 | It will be a sweet moment for Emburey whose tour seemed doomed when he was savaged by various Indian batsmen in the early games , Test opener Navjot Sidhu hitting him for eight sixes in the second three-day warm-up fixture at Lucknow . |
| 17 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 18 | Yelena Prokina skilfully using Mussorgsky 's rapid melodic fragments to suggest her terror as she is about to succumb to rape , Andrey Khovansky pursuing her with the exaggeration of the weak man who is over-asserting himself . |
| 19 | He has some very harsh words for the Japanese about their ban on Frankie Detory saying it 's shortsighted and harsh in the extreme and we 'll all say yes to that . |
| 20 | She could hear the regretful , gentle voice of Mother Francis telling her that life was never meant to be easy and that her best course was to work very hard now and get out of this place in record time . |
| 21 | With er , Dennis Weaver blocking it . |
| 22 | I remember Jim Laker showing me his greatly distended index finger , the result of thousands of hours of actually spinning the ball on to a landing area the size of a pocket handkerchief . |
| 23 | After a discussion with Ira Dilworth I telegraphed Dr Liu requesting him to inform Chiang Kai-Shek that I could be available to go to China on a month 's notice . |
| 24 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 25 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 26 | Aunt Maggie videoing you the re-match ? |
| 27 | Neither party seem too interested in the other , and that night I dream about Enoch Powell showing me around a slum street with a vile grin on his face . |
| 28 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 29 | His dark night of the soul came in the Chinama Motel in faraway Lusaka , after his escape from South Africa , as he lay listening to the foreign service of Radio South Africa describing him as a liar , a crook and a psychopath . |
| 30 | True , it might be a genuine enquiry , but it could be Nigel Steen relating him to Jacqui for the first time . |