Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 2 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 3 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 4 | Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products . |
| 5 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 6 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 8 | Fucking Brinley 's a big fucking tart as far as I 'm concerned there are young man are you coming to discover us with young Sam ? |
| 9 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 10 | In this founding era , de Gaulle gradually gathered soldiers and civilians to his standard , transformed his improvised organization into an alternative state , with its own bureaucracy and armed forces , headed off efforts to replace him as Free France 's leader , and emerged as the symbolic head of all French resisters , inside as well as outside France . |
| 11 | Edberg 's victory lifted him over American Jim Courier to the top of the world rankings . |
| 12 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 13 | I must go and break it to dear Dimity , and then we must clear up things here , and set off for Thrush Green without delay . ’ |
| 14 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 15 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 16 | Leave Quebec and continue to Montreal where a brief city tour introduces you to Old Montreal and the French Quarter . |
| 17 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 18 | The CRE was recently refused government funding of £140,000 to continue research into a method of extracting carbon dioxide produced by power stations and pumping it into depleted North Sea oil and gas wells , neutralising its environmental impact . |
| 19 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 20 | The Profiles section gives some fleshed-out NPCs , but you can easily develop your own or import them from other WFRP products if you wish . |
| 21 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 22 | I therefore suggest that all possible steps are taken to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian by moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy . |
| 23 | He was therefore asking as a matter of urgency that " all possible steps " should be taken " to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area whether German , Austrian or Russian " by " moving them to northern Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy " . |
| 24 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 25 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 26 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 27 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 28 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 29 | So much so , that he recently purchased a massive ex-display tank , set it up in his dining room and stocked it with wild-caught Malawis , many of which are now breeding regularly . |
| 30 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |