Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis .
2 Awarded an 1851 exhibition two-year travelling scholarship , from 1899 he worked in Paris ( under P. van Tieghem and M. Cornu ) , Antibes ( where G. Poirault introduced him to chytrids ) , Freiburg ( under F. Oltmanns ) , and finally the Jodrell laboratory of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew .
3 John McCarthy , Terry Waite , Jackie Mann and spent time in a special unit where Dr Turnbull helped them come to terms with what had happened to them .
4 They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets .
5 STEVE ARCHIBALD & ALAN BRAZIL SHOOT IT OUT ON THE GREEN BAIZE
6 You do n't just say , ‘ Give me a hand in this campaign for everyone to put out their dustbins ’ You try to get the mayor to do it , or Princess Diana to do it , or a hundred-year-old lady , in the district or Rumanian orphans .
7 In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " .
8 The silence seemed to go on interminably , before either Mr Smith or Mr Jones found it in him to mutter : ‘ I suppose we were talking a little out of turn there .
9 In the middle of Fifth Avenue , where Pevsner Road crossed it , was another small grocer 's and a pub called the Boxer , and at the far end , opposite each other , a unisex hairdresser 's and a betting shop .
10 Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap .
11 We went into the garden , where Mrs Goreng showed them her flourishing orchids .
12 He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first .
13 As Christians , the awareness that Christ is the source of our love and significance frees us to serve our partner and staff to their weaknesses to help them become the man or woman God intended them to be .
14 ‘ Here we are , ’ gushed the presenter of Gardeners ' World , ‘ we 're in my very favourite corner of the estate now , with its magnificent , sweeping views down to the river.just look at this superb example of Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , or Dawn Redwood to give it its more familiar name , I do n't think I 've ever seen a better specimen anywhere .
15 But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour
16 IT WAS not until he could taste his own blood that Ian Norrie realised he had been slashed — the pain from the punches disguised the feeling of cold metal entering his cheek .
17 Tradition claims that King John used it as hunting lodge .
18 We were so far behind the group that King Hussein got us permission to fly the pipeline across Saudi Arabia ; the group which did not have the same permission had to backtrack to Luxor , before crossing the Arabian Peninsula .
19 I was always afraid that once Maria Luisa returned you would choose her rather than me . ’
20 A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs .
21 Newcastle had too many keepers so Jim Smith let him go .
22 Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine .
23 But , so Stepan Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ They wo n't let you build our bridge . ’
24 'E collapsed as 'e come out the Kings Arms an' they rushed 'im away ter the 'ospital. 'E 's in a bad way so Maisie Dingle told me .
25 ‘ I was pleased that Lawrie McMenemy watched me and said good things about me , that 's another boost .
26 True it is that Ewan Beg thought he had killed his dallta — for I told him so .
27 Here are some points that Lloyds Bank suggests you look out for in the small print .
28 It has not been explained how they were able to do so without taking any instructions from Mrs. Steed , but it has not been suggested that Mrs. Steed authorised them to do so .
29 " What the hell 's going on here Some bloody fool phoned my old man and told him that I need n't come in today , that Mrs. Schofield wanted me .
30 A hole in one of the largest stone coffins was there , so Dr Raistrick told me , " to let the juices drain away " .
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