Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit .
2 Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ?
3 We got about Amsterdam on bicycles — I had n't ridden one since I was seven years old — and that had stabilisers — so I had a little trouble .
4 ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other .
5 They drove most of the remainder of the journey in silence , speeding through Kent into West Sussex , along roads flanked by hedges and trees , past isolated houses and farms .
6 FORMER Sheffield Wednesday striker Steve Whitton had the last word — snatching an equaliser with only seconds to go for Ipswich at Bramall Lane .
7 It was registered as G–ASTL on June 1 , 1964 .
8 XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow .
9 Gunn still rooting for Ferguson in title race Myles Palmer reveals why the Norwich goalkeeper makes Manchester United his second choice
10 Philip of Swabia had restored the title of king to Ottokar , duke of Bohemia , a fief of the German empire , on his eastern borders , but Ottokar was persuaded by Innocent to desert Philip and declare for Otto of Brunswick .
11 The win secured Portadown 's place in the next stage of the competition and they are expected to see off Ballymena on Saturday in their final section game .
12 It was finally answered by a man who spoke with an artificial , lazy drawl and was suspicious when she asked for Urquhart by name .
13 Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America .
14 When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt .
15 Shortly after this fight , my father was reinstated amateur and , as an amateur , he fought for England against Germany in 1937 at the Albert Hall , beating Otto Kastner , the Olympic champion and Golden Gloves winner .
16 Travelling accommodation seems to have been very casual and limited for JTR on occasion , more like hostelling .
17 Streep goes for Goldie in battle of the blondes
18 What you got for Tracey on loans ?
19 What you got for Tracey on loans ?
20 Premier : Sir Robert Rex , re-elected in the April 1990 general election [ erroneously given as May on p. 37887 ] ( also Minister for Economic Affairs , Public Services and Police ) .
21 you might remember him from Wembley as the man who levelled for Norway against England with that wonderful shot .
22 A fleet of 80 ships was assembled at Brest under de Tourville , who was to be joined off Ushant by others sailing from Rochefort and Toulon , but in the event neither force was ready on time and when de Tourville sailed on 2 May he had only 37 ships , excluding fireships , under his command , though seven more arrived later .
23 After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland .
24 The question arose after Donoghue v. Stevenson as to how broadly the ratio decidendi could be interpreted .
25 The initial PDS-3 offering uses the Mbus SparcSet chip set designed for Cypress by Santa Clara , California-based start up Nimbus Technologies Inc for Sparc builders , which will take HyperSparc when it is ready ( UX No 383 ) .
26 I 'm a hoarder when it comes to clothes — I still wear some of the clothes designed for Alexis in Dynasty .
27 When we ask how it was , after initial preaching , that people were won for Christ in Corinth , Ephesus , Rome , Thessalonica , Galatia , Colossae , Philippi and the other destinations of the New Testament epistles , clearly the answer is : through the church !
28 Nynex Corp 's New York Telephone says it has rerouted 2,000 telephone lines from the World Trade Center to tenants ' temporary offices scattered through Manhattan since Friday 's explosion ; it says it has also installed 1,000 new lines and 100 T1 high speed dedicated lines since the emergency .
29 And I suppose , thought Fenella , with a sidelong glance at her companion , that I shall have to find a suitable way , an acceptable way , of explaining about Nuadu to Caspar .
30 Schuster says relational database performance under NT on Intel Corp boxes wo n't differ much from results under Unix , but does n't know about NT on RISC .
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