Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleridge , his thoughts still at Racedown , immediately saw the opportunity for bringing all his friends together at Stowey , and on 29 June wrote to Joseph Cottle to suggest — unsuccessfully — that he should take the next coach to Bridgwater : ‘ T. Poole would fetch you in a one horse Chair . ’ |
| 2 | That 's another good reason for keeping all your inputs in a separate area . |
| 3 | After completing all your moves check how many best logos , you have collected . |
| 4 | She deserves some fun after typing all my manuscripts . |
| 5 | Mr Waddington , who was addressing the Lancashire business school , said that prisoners serving short sentences — defined by Lord Carlisle as under four years — should be granted parole automatically after serving half their sentences . |
| 6 | The Kiwis struggled after losing half their batsmen for only 44 , including opener John Wright for a second-ball duck and skipper Martin Crowe for 18 . |
| 7 | Sefton were left to fight a valiant rearguard action after losing half their batting cheaply . |
| 8 | Wilkinson was in poor spirits after losing both his matches in the recent Davis Cup match with Hungary in Budapest , on clay , but the grass court season has given him renewed zest and he is playing the best tennis of his career . |
| 9 | AFTER spending all his working life in the pottery industry , a familiar figure at Barlaston is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ which will enable him to explore scenic routes around the world . |
| 10 | BIG-HEARTED Frank Gibbs faces a bleak Christmas after giving all his money to charity . |
| 11 | Suddenly a part of you you 've taken for granted all your life gives out , or plays you up . |
| 12 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 13 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 14 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 15 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 16 | Mr Young , though thinnish , had a habit of eating half his wife 's food as well as his own . |
| 17 | The Council has a policy now of bringing all its properties up to date , but priority because they 're , bringing the houses up to date will take some eight years , priority is given to elderly citizens and people with medical needs . |
| 18 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 19 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 20 | Unless we perform the impossibility of checking all their instances , they always risk falsification by one counter-instance . |
| 21 | The citizens of Pisa found , for a time , a convenient means of solving both its needs ; and the duomo was ( in its creators ' eyes ) a visible proof of God 's blessing on their endeavours . |
| 22 | She suppressed it quickly and guiltily , but not before she had been rewarded by an equally amused glance from Dr Russell , which had the unfortunate effect of turning all her limbs to jelly at once . |
| 23 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 24 | When Nicholas McGegan took over from John Eliot Gardiner as Music Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival , he took with him the idea of recording all his performances on CD . |
| 25 | The family had gathered to mourn the death of Thomas Grenfell , weighed down by the shame of losing all his money , overcome by a sickness that he had no will to resist . |
| 26 | In other war films , however , the purpose is revealed by insistent preachiness , as in Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , where the story of Douglas Bader , the determined pilot who , despite losing both his legs in an accident , went on to command the air force during the Battle of Britain , is told as a story that ‘ was not only an example to those in war but is now a source of inspiration to many in peace . ’ |
| 27 | Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ? |
| 28 | It was very odd , this way he had of dragging all her senses into screaming vitality . |
| 29 | They see food as a way of controlling both their bodies and the chaos they feel about their lives . |
| 30 | Instead of putting all her efforts into resisting him , she 'd been more concerned about not admitting her love . |