Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 3 | Judy Armstrong travelled independently to New Zealand . |
| 4 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 5 | In 1890 , Beatrice Webb referred caustically to ‘ individualists , reinforced by a batch of excellent ladies ( eager for the Right of Woman to work at all hours of the day and night with the minimum space and sanitation ) ’ who opposed any attempt to regulate conditions in workshops and the homework trades . |
| 6 | Another scheme developed in Peterborough with local gynaecologists sees Cherylynne Churchill arriving home by ambulance after three nights in hospital for her hysterectomy — the usual time is between seven to 11 days — to be greeted by the district nurse , a patient aide , and Mrs Elizabeth Allen . |
| 7 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 8 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 9 | Waterstones ' financial director Ian Newman kicked off by outlining the importance of having a business plan : ‘ If you have got a plan , then you are controlling your business against something clearly set out and written down . ’ |
| 10 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 11 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 12 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 13 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 14 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 15 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 16 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 17 | as if frightened by more unwanted exposure Marinello crept back into his shell . |
| 18 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 19 | In Britain , for example , the first Reform Act of 1832 was preceded by decades of intermittent popular struggle , in which leading figures like William Cobbett argued ceaselessly against insurrectionary designs and in favour of channelling popular radicalism towards the constitutional objective of a wider franchise . |
| 20 | Herr Nordern bit impatiently at his thumb . |
| 21 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 22 | Herr Nordern wove unsteadily across the living-room into the bathroom and plunged his face into cold water . |
| 23 | The visitors deservedly went ahead in the 19th minute when Gary Blissett fired home from 12 yards . |
| 24 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 25 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 26 | 31 Fringe benefits Colin Ward gets away from it all in Dartington |
| 27 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward gets away from it all , submerging himself at Dartington |
| 28 | On the field Webb stood out for composure , O'Donnell 's experience was invaluable , and their overseas player , Simpkins — he travels from the Isle of Wight — was brave and solid in goal . |
| 29 | In the midst of the continuing public disorder which had accompanied demands for his resignation in recent weeks , President Gnassingbe Eyadema stood down on May 14 from the post of Defence Minister which he had held since seizing power in 1967 . |
| 30 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |