Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caro got off the near-empty Sunday bus and walked quickly through the light drizzle towards her parents ' house . |
| 2 | An A major-F major chord progression is heard as the remorseful Achilles reflects on his men who died through his fault . |
| 3 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 4 | Close , mutually supportive partnerships existed through the joint responsibilities for Tutorial Classes and between WEA courses and university extension provision from its own establishment in 1903 , and the identification of shared objectives developed through the 1908 Oxford Report . |
| 5 | Willie had caught the bug , and his first top professional tournament duly arrived with a trip to Turnberry for the News of the World PGA Matchplay Championship , caddying for the legendary Scot Eric Brown . |
| 6 | If that was true , would I approve an auction of my personal belongings , jewellery , dishes , everything and just stand aside helpless ? ’ she asked during the joint Fox and Sky News interview in New York . |
| 7 | Even in Italy , where Campese plays for the other Milan club owned by multi-millionaire Silvia Berlusconi — AC Milan having slightly more kudos — Campese can walk around freely . |
| 8 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 9 | In 1911 Fort Station was developed as the principal Colombo station . |
| 10 | It would be appreciated if the Herts , Beds , Cambs. , teachers would attend to the teat at the Meeting arranged for the 27th February . |
| 11 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 12 | At the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies , David Correll , a chemist , spends his summer days wading through the tiny Rhode River collecting samples . |
| 13 | ( There was no truth in this legend but such legends gathered about the young Michael Ramsey and certainly he was odd in processions . ) |
| 14 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 15 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 16 | The non-crystallographic fivefold symmetry is also strongly conserved between the five CsA molecules with average r.m.s.d. values of 0.27Å for all atoms and 0.15Å for the eleven C α atoms . |
| 17 | The train hastened through the flat Thames Valley fields and flat Western suburbs with single-minded impatience ; Tessa felt that everyone aboard , like herself , must be on the way to some metropolitan sexual encounter . |
| 18 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 19 | I think that the hurdles that they have got to get over to get books are a barrier … the children have to go through the whole Dewey decimal system which is complicated . |
| 20 | WHATEVER anyone might think about the amazing Norman Lamont saga , everyone will be agreed on one point : How can lawyers run up a Pounds 23,000 bill so simply ? |
| 21 | Based on figures calculated for the united Yemen throughout 1990 , the budget forecast a deficit reduction of some 27 per cent during 1991 , with a 43 per cent increase in revenue and an increase in expenditure of only 10 per cent . |
| 22 | It makes standard pear-shaped hot-air balloons for enthusiasts , and specially shaped ones for advertising or big egos — like the hot-air balloon it made for the late Malcolm Forbes in the shape of the American publisher 's French chateau . |
| 23 | AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo . |
| 24 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 25 | Records tumbled during the final Middlesbrough Match series on Hemlington Lake as glorious weather signalled a carp-feeding frenzy . |
| 26 | A very pleasant day trip can be spent journeying through the pretty Suffolk villages of Little Cavendish and Long Melford , and the medieval town of Lavenham where a delicious meal is to be had at the Swan . |
| 27 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 28 | She was his mother 's toady , sneaking on the other maids , angling for the hated Mrs Gerard 's job . |
| 29 | On Aug. 2 Baker met with a Palestinian delegation in East Jerusalem led by Faisal al-Husseini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial PLO representative in Jerusalem . |
| 30 | Regarded as the third Saatchi brother when he was finance director of their advertising group , Martin Sorrell decided to branch out on his own in 1985 . |