Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 2 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
| 3 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 4 | TOMMY SMITH : ( Liverpool , Swansea and England — 1962-1979 ) : ‘ The minute he got off the coach and walked into the changing-room people would go for cover . |
| 5 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 6 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 7 | She got off the bed and , opening the bureau , took out a set of handcuffs and some leather-look rope . |
| 8 | She got off the bed and listened . |
| 9 | He got off the bed and went around . |
| 10 | She got off the bed and went to unlock the door without any trepidation , or any other strong emotion . |
| 11 | Now we got off the phone and knowing the man I allowed three . |
| 12 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 13 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 14 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 15 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 16 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 17 | So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right ! |
| 18 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 19 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 20 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 21 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 22 | So we are erm continuously forecasting for the Gas and Electricity Authorities . |
| 23 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 24 | Are there works which you had hoped to borrow for the exhibition but which are not being made available to you ? |
| 25 | Then you would remain as a group and could observe your own customs , those which do not conflict with our law . ’ |
| 26 | Thus a certain sales figure may remain as the target but the spending habits of the income group from which the sales were to come may have shifted . |
| 27 | I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels . |
| 28 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 29 | Desert Orchid 's owner Richard Burridge said : ‘ Yes , I 've heard about the plan but I do n't know exact details . ’ |
| 30 | Now we 've just heard about the fox and it 's coming across into the clearing , then an eye widening deepening greenness and talks about it coming about his own business till a sudden sharp hot stink of fox enters the dark hole of the head . |