Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 2 | Fernando Serra had never truly cared for her and did n't now . |
| 3 | Kenneth Baker arrived shortly afterwards , positively beaming . |
| 4 | Just — ’ he hesitated for a moment and Herr Nordern leaned forward eagerly . |
| 5 | Lord Justice Taylor said pretty much the same thing in his report into the disaster , although he was concerned in the main with the safety aspect . |
| 6 | After all this , the plot of La Bayadere comes as outrageously irresponsible nonsense . |
| 7 | The Leeds victory was partly based on David Rocastle 's holding role in midfield that allowed Gary Speed to get forward so effectively . |
| 8 | However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place . |
| 9 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 10 | Worksop Manor and Clumber Park had long since disappeared and Welbeck Abbey had become a military training school . |
| 11 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 12 | ‘ No , they do n't , ’ Miss Honey said rather stiffly . |
| 13 | Miss Honey stepped briskly inside . |
| 14 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |
| 15 | David O Selznick no longer owned a part of him . |
| 16 | Daniele might be running the team for 1976 , but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand . |
| 17 | If it does not — and Mrs. Murray states quite clearly that it does not — then I would regard the Home Secretary as having acted contrary to his policy . |
| 18 | As Edward Sagarin noted so eloquently in The Anatomy of Dirty Words : |
| 19 | Miss Grimsilk had surely never , ever known a man ‘ quite well ’ unless it was her father . |
| 20 | But now that I think further about it , I am not sure Miss Kenton spoke quite so boldly that day . |
| 21 | In his own mind , Richard Branson had never fully abandoned journalism . |
| 22 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 23 | And here is the immortal opening paragraph from Winnie the Pooh , A.A. Milne 's eternally beloved teddy : ‘ Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now , bump , bump , bump on the back of his head , behind Christopher Robin . |
| 24 | With Gerbrand Grobler playing so well at fullback and backing up Naas as a place kicker , it seems the fifteen spot is tied up . |
| 25 | Thanks very largely to Neil Caldwell 's untiring efforts in commissioning ecological reports and co-ordinating environmental objectors , the Newport Council has once again withdrawn its Bill from Parliament . |
| 26 | The next year , he raced again for Lotus , only the Lotus was a less good Lotus , the Ferrari was a lot better car , his team-mate Carlos Reutemann finished consistently ahead of him and some of the smiles had gone out of Mario . |
| 27 | Why then do I remain seated for Sally Field , in soft focus , gulping back emotion , Sigourney Weaver groping for emotion — any emotion — and Kathleen Turner proving once again that she ca n't open a fridge door without flexing a buttock . |
| 28 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
| 29 | Renault engineers have also carefully developed the rear suspension on Safrane to provide predictable handling even when sideways cornering forces are involved . |
| 30 | One reason , for example , why the Falklands issue figured so infrequently on the agenda of the Cabinet 's Oversea and Defence Committee before the Argentine invasion of April 1982 is that Lord Carrington , then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , disliked bringing Foreign Office business before committee meetings of his colleagues . |