Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 2 | Jeannie — ’ They kissed again and then he was gone , running after the uplanders to catch them at Camserney mill . |
| 3 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 4 | Several thousand people from Shkodër and nearby towns converged on the northern port of Shengjin where they attempted to seize vessels to take them to Italy . |
| 5 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 6 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 7 | Your postcards to reach us by Saturday , December 19 , 1992 . |
| 8 | A Royal Air Force Sea King helicopter from Lossiemouth battled against strong winds to airlift him to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness , but he died there at about 6:30pm on Saturday . |
| 9 | So the Holy Spirit works , in our lives to bring us to Christ , to bring us to new birth . |
| 10 | Tanks and policemen armed with submachineguns have been deployed at airports ; members of Parliament have been issued with special badges to identify themselves inside Westminster . |
| 11 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 12 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 13 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 14 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 15 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 16 | Do you have any more messages to bring me from Victor Frankenstein ? ’ |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the line was built and opened officially in 1868 and there were plans to extend it to Bala by tunnelling under the mountains . |
| 18 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 19 | They all bought their tickets from an Abingdon based company , Sportsworld Travel , which held exclusive rights to sell them in Britain . |
| 20 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 21 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |
| 22 | Lorna has been active as a tenants leader and was elected by tenants to represent them on Haringey Council 's Housing Committee . |
| 23 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 24 | And I want to keep a few things to remind me of Billy . |
| 25 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 26 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |
| 27 | We chose a shopping basket of 29 items to compare them with Tesco and Sainsbury . |
| 28 | " You go with Pete now , he 'll take you to Tom Rooney , an " Tom will make the arrangements to get you to Dublin . " |
| 29 | The AD 's defeat prompted some of the party 's leaders to distance themselves from Pérez , most notably the party 's president , Humberto Celli . |
| 30 | Boat people in Hong Kong made an emotional appeal to the US government to block moves to return them to Vietnam , repeating earlier threats of mass suicide . |