Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gave a judgment to the like effect , although he limited his remarks to the ability of a corporation to sue for a libel reflecting on the management of its trade or business . |
| 2 | We have heard about a planet called Vadinamia , where our stolen phetam may have been taken . |
| 3 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 4 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 5 | In Champagne , Patrick Forbes indicates the indispensability of popping champagne corks for the success of a ball , stating that no less than 1,800 bottles of mousseux were consumed during a party held on 30 August 1739 at which Louis XV apparently attended incognito . |
| 6 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 7 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 8 | This was a team event , with 7 countries competing for a trophy named after Joan Scruton . |
| 9 | The tiny racing cars , operated by two sponsored five-men teams , zoomed around a 24-yard track competing for a trophy donated by Major Marques car restorers of Sherborne . |
| 10 | The power of the pope to depose an unsatisfactory emperor goes back to the Dictatus Pape of Gregory VII — a power which Innocent preferred to see as a right to inspect , approve and crown , but there is little doubt that it was important in the papal moral armoury . |
| 11 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 12 | At the foot of the steps Lan stopped for a moment to turn and stare back at Joseph . |
| 13 | Suddenly he noticed how pale I was , and stopped for a moment to let me get my breath back . |
| 14 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 15 | The amount of money received for a service rendered is not dependent upon who you are , but upon the abstract relations within which the service is performed , for example as wage labour . |
| 16 | How does the Von Neumann computer distinguish between a location holding a pair of instructions and a location holding a numeric value ? |
| 17 | The documents sometimes distinguish between a slave living in his master 's house and a slave with a cottage of his own , but not very often . |
| 18 | He tumbled through a blackness shot with scarlet , fighting against a movement now absent . |
| 19 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 20 | On about 89 mins Deane put the ball in the net , but the goal was disallowed for a Wallace push on a defender . |
| 21 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 22 | He then applied for a mandamus directed to the visitor to hear an appeal on the grounds that the earlier appeal to the visitor had been no true appeal at all . |
| 23 | The king , who was disguised as a servant to escape Cromwell 's army , was accompanied by his personal chaplain , Michael Hudson , rector of Uffington near Stamford , and Mr. Ashburnham . |
| 24 | This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse . |
| 25 | Indeed , the colourful story of Susanna Centlivre 's sojourn at Cambridge supposedly disguised as a man presents an image of the woman entering the intellectual world by stealth . |
| 26 | I was caused to go for a walk to get some fresh m-m-m-m-m-m — |
| 27 | Equally , there 's no need to go for a savings scheme which gives you a cheque book if you 'll never use it . |
| 28 | By this stage in the Parliament we were deeply unpopular and had allowed ourselves to be painted as a government forcing through doctrinaire policies . |
| 29 | Even allowing for a desire to please his audience , sentiments of that sort sound better news than warnings of confrontation . |
| 30 | In the North East of England the waterways developed as a network linked to the wide rivers Aire , Calder , Ouse and Trent . |