Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An indication of progress on the subject of SLCMs was provided on July 14 , when the US National Security Adviser , Brent Scowcroft , commented that ( Soviet ) proposals to ban SLCMs altogether ( in the light of perceived verification problems associated with ascertaining their numbers ) were " one of the open areas in the strategic arms negotiations ' ( the USA had formerly wanted to exclude SLCMs from the talks ) . |
| 32 | Dad had complained about the threatening telephone call and no action had been taken ; but the man had obviously reported Russell to the police and here they were in force to arrest him . |
| 33 | Herbert went to work and visited Clara in the evenings . |
| 34 | In Kendal the Duke of Perth 's horsemen were stoned and attacked by a mob armed with clubs , and as they approached Clifton on the outskirts of Penrith they came under fire from militiamen hidden behind the hedgerows . |
| 35 | Suddenly he thumped the arm of his chair with his fist , remembering all the times he 'd caught Stella on the stairs in the middle of the night , staring at the telephone . |
| 36 | Malik showed willing to attack from the start , driving Mallender through the covers like a rifle-shot , and treating Munton the same way . |
| 37 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 38 | Such were the troops who fought Alexander at the Granikos . |
| 39 | ‘ There 's Kerly with his wife , ’ hissed Natasha , nudging Maggie in the ribs , and then discreetly pointing with a finger . |
| 40 | ‘ Come on , ’ he shouted , urging Isabel towards the stairs . |
| 41 | Dundee United 's manager , Jim McLean , then took typically forthright action to bring the player to his senses , relegating Ferguson to the reserves until he learned to accept the club 's code of discipline . |
| 42 | Whether or not third States are finally included as indirectly injured States in the terms of Draft Article 5 ( 3 ) , development of international law in this respect is crucial to an examination of the rights and obligations of third parties . |
| 43 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 44 | Neil Fairbrother 's team , who have already won at Surrey and Sussex , were today drawn to visit Leicestershire in the semi-finals . |
| 45 | He listened to her intently , even with deference , and Riven , remembering Hugh on the occasions when he had met Jenny , thought that perhaps there was a twisted sort of logic to this world after all . |
| 46 | After so many hours , lives , speeches spent , Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : ‘ Deliver Helen , and all damage else — As honour , loss of time , travail expense , Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this comorant war — Shall be struck off . ’ |
| 47 | In January 1991 Don McKinnon ( Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs ) and Warren Cooper ( Minister of Defence ) became the most senior New Zealand ministers to visit Suva since the coups . |
| 48 | He poked Benny in the ribs and pointed to it , a thrill of expectation going through them both . |
| 49 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 50 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 51 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 52 | You were asked whether you told Mr about the solicitors letter |
| 53 | Charles Beadle , Beatrice 's neighbour , tells many stories of Modigliani , full of drink and drugs , quarrelling , when he was in the garden with Beatrice innocently discussing the plants ; of Modigliani walking in the cemetery because ‘ death was not far off ’ ( ‘ Would n't it be magnificent ’ , he said to Beadle , if we could contemplate our own skeletons ? ’ ) ; of Modigliani reciting Lautréamont beside the graves , hungry for drugs , suspecting all Beatrice 's male friends . |
| 54 | ‘ He is the best goalscorer I 've ever seen in my time in professional football , and anyone who has seen Liverpool over the years will agree he 's a very special player . ’ |
| 55 | Politically it was perhaps not the best time to visit Israel with the deportees refuelling the Intifada unrest in the lands of the West Bank . |
| 56 | He is sent to replace Jesus among the disciples and to do for them what Jesus had done on earth . |
| 57 | Mum told Mary about the changes in the arrangements but Mary was n't at all pleased . |
| 58 | Instead , to lighten things , he told Emily about the marbles . |
| 59 | Later , as a ‘ Christian evangelist ’ , Gary would speak of meeting God in the hours of comparative tranquillity on the prison roof . |
| 60 | Jack told Ho about the changes in his life : his mother 's re-marriage , the harsh reality of the north-east , Tina 's rough charm and her painful bonding to her family , and finally Ken 's so-called accident . |