Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 2 | After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located . |
| 3 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 4 | Even the feeblest message of support from the British Young Socialists ( not of course from the Labour Party executive ) was cheered widely in Tiananmen Square . |
| 5 | Methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-monophosphate ( dUMP ) to deoxythymidine-5'-monophosphate ( dTMP ) , catalysed by thymidilate synthetase , is the paradigmatic case of a reaction that proceeds via a covalent adduct , formed reversibly by Michael addition of the enzyme to the C 5 -C 6 double bond of its pyrimidine substrate ; for a review see Pogolotti and Santi ( 1 ) . |
| 6 | The idea of using chemiluminescence has now been developed commercially by Amersham International . |
| 7 | The Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , who had stonewalled successfully on Mrs Thatcher 's behalf during the Westland inquiries , was sent to Australia in a vain attempt to stop the book being published there . |
| 8 | The Buckau 's first series of trials at sea as a rotor ship was completed successfully in January 1925 . |
| 9 | The transfer of our central distribution operation to Brackmills , Northampton was completed successfully in October 1992 and it now handles almost 11,000 commodities . |
| 10 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 11 | Richard now pressed on to Salerno , where he wanted to discuss a recurrent ague with the city 's famous doctors . |
| 12 | Both Kasparov and 27-year-old Short , the first British player in the championship final this century , said they rejected the earlier £1.2 million bid from Manchester because they said they were not consulted properly by FIDE . |
| 13 | There was a long pause broken eventually by Rose . |
| 14 | There was a rather sombre silence for a few seconds , broken eventually by Maidstone who said : ‘ Right ! |
| 15 | Lodgement till on slopes and ‘ crag and tail ’ landforms are developed locally on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist . |
| 16 | But in the following sentences — unfinished , fragmentary , as spontaneous as speech — we seem to be placed right inside Emma 's head . |
| 17 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 18 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 19 | I think it 's also entertainment the excellent wage of services placed on by Harlow Council . |
| 20 | An old magic lamp is hidden somewhere in Happyland . |
| 21 | The vessel was reported to have travelled on to Aden where , according to a UNHCR official , some 62,000 Somali refugees were housed in camps . |
| 22 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 23 | One day a statue will be erected somewhere on O'Connell Street to bear testament to this fact . |
| 24 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 25 | It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself . |
| 26 | Formed only in January be well-known songwriters David Llewellyn and Ian Sutherland , they play ‘ powerful , energetic dance rock ’ . |
| 27 | Mujjaddedi , who had travelled overland from Peshawar along with 20 other IJC members , was formally appointed as head of state of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan . |
| 28 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 29 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 30 | The Tories have responded to calls for unity and fallen in behind John Major . |