Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun .
2 Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 .
3 They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll .
4 The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer .
5 Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations .
6 Waterstones ' financial director Ian Newman kicked off by outlining the importance of having a business plan : ‘ If you have got a plan , then you are controlling your business against something clearly set out and written down . ’
7 All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago .
8 Lyndhurst West looks back at COMDEX , and decides what 's hot , and what 's not in Coming our way .
9 Ian Crook came out of Tottenham reserves and has shown what a quality player he is .
10 Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter .
11 Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter .
12 All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way .
13 Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship .
14 Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his .
15 Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader .
16 As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) :
17 In the midst of the continuing public disorder which had accompanied demands for his resignation in recent weeks , President Gnassingbe Eyadema stood down on May 14 from the post of Defence Minister which he had held since seizing power in 1967 .
18 Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute .
19 Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling .
20 Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try .
21 In six letters from Swindon Edward poured out to her his hopes , his feelings , and his frustrations , and sent poems addressed to her .
22 As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport .
23 Inset : The River Bus , MV Conrad Chelsea Harbour sets off from Lambeth Pier with its royal passenger on board .
24 Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own .
25 At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path .
26 Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters .
27 ‘ I remember now , ’ said Burden , lifting the plastic strip curtain the Carousel Cafe hung up in hot weather to keep out wasps .
28 Then Gary Gregory leaned over to a pal viewing the programme with him and said : ‘ Can you keep a secret ?
29 A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune .
30 After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants
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