Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
| 2 | The highest summit in the world — accorded the status by British surveyors in the 1850s — Everest has been the crowning target for the world 's mountaineers since the first attempt to climb it in 1921 . |
| 3 | A BANK accused a man of using his hole-in-the-wall cash card to defraud it of hundreds of pounds — even though he did not know his personal number . |
| 4 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 5 | In many ways the latter approach would be preferable since the essential question is whether the charge was intended to secure some new value and the requirement to register it within 21 days of its creation would suffice to protect those dealing with company . |
| 6 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 7 | Should you find , on receipt of your policy , that it fails to meet your requirements in any way , you have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days without payment . |
| 8 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 9 | No need to knock me for six . |
| 10 | Police in Lurgan want anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them on 0762-325144 . |
| 11 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 12 | Used to be a time when Mammy had a job to get you into one of those pretty dresses of yours , remember ? |
| 13 | Tropical Plants have a new sales team to take them into 1992 , marketing activities have been increased and there is a greater awareness amongst clients of the need for green foliage . |
| 14 | The 1931 treaty is automatically prolonged from year to year and each party has the right to terminate it after six months ' notification . |
| 15 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 16 | The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding . |
| 17 | The Lycett & Conaty radial gear had not proved satisfactory and it seems that ‘ Warner ’ radial gear was obtained from M & G Truck & Engineering Co. to replace it by 1912 , but was not fitted to the cars until 1922 or 1923 . |
| 18 | contribution from local residents that we have achieved — the figure in Scotland is even lower — but , on the contrary , a commitment to raise it to 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Its suspected health hazards , such as cancer and nervous disorders , led the US government to suspend it in 1974 . |
| 20 | Give me your word to meet me at twelve at the attorneys and I will take it . ’ |
| 21 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 22 | At present there is planning permission to chop it into three , and garage eight cars . |
| 23 | Opening the car door , the boy took my hand to lead me towards one side of a three-sided , bungalow-styled villa . |
| 24 | She 'd probably have the bad taste to put him in one of her cynical , satirical stories . |
| 25 | Side effects of the IUD and hormone contraceptives like the pill and Depo Provera are major reasons why between 40 and 70 per cent of users in the Third World to abandon them within two years . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 27 | And when they came to wake him up and get him ready for breakfast to feed him at six o'clock , he was gone . |
| 28 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |
| 29 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 30 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |