Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally . |
| 2 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 3 | A bit of a luck break there off Oldfield takes it to Collimore . |
| 4 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 5 | He sent for Eleanor to join him in Normandy and when she arrived , a message went to Richard , requiring him to surrender Aquitaine to his mother , the lawful duchess . |
| 6 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 7 | Sir John Ure , commissioner general of the British pavilion , is also confident that Expo will succeed , but injects a note of caution : ‘ It 's a very tall order for Spain to mount something like this . |
| 8 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 9 | Lemos resigned on March 25 , allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges . |
| 10 | Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) . |
| 11 | A letter was sent to the parish officers of Kempston informing them of the gross impropriety of their conduct respecting the patient and the institution . |
| 12 | hand of the Archbishop of Nicosia meant nothing to them . |
| 13 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 14 | His appointment to the keepership of Bewcastle brought him into conflict with William , third Lord Dacre , of Gilsland . |
| 15 | Genius of Picasso to recall us to this , with his combinations of life-class drawing , cubism , collage , lettering , etc . |
| 16 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 17 | And mention of Ken brings me to a quick word about British gold panners . |
| 18 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 19 | The portraits of Chatterton have something of the importance to the novel that the living and ageing likeness has in The Picture of Dorian Gray . |
| 20 | The Rock of Pakistan contented himself with keeping watch for that bit longer . |
| 21 | ‘ Curious ’ , after all , meant ‘ investigative ’ when the Earl of Hyndford used it of Thomas Goldney III , and that is what universities are meant to be about . |
| 22 | The manuscript contained a collection of writings describing the legends of Glastonbury , Avalon , Arthur , the forging of Excalibur , and even the fanciful story of how , when Christ was a boy , Joseph of Arimathea brought him to Glastonbury to buy tin and precious oils from the natives . |
| 23 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 24 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 25 | The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . " |
| 26 | Nevertheless , at Scone on the 5th February 1284 , Alexander made all the estates of Scotland bind themselves by oath to acknowledge the Maid of Norway as his heir , failing any children Alexander might have in the future . |
| 27 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 28 | This popular corner of Spain has something of everything for everyone . |
| 29 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 30 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |