Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 2 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 3 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 4 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 5 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 6 | These mages of Saphery and their personal guards are often summoned by the Phoenix King to aid him in his wars . |
| 7 | ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using . |
| 8 | I spent the evening reading , and rang for Miss Matlock to help me to bed shortly before eleven . ’ |
| 9 | IT was disgusting for David Mellor to compare himself to Captain Oates of the ill-fated Antarctic expedition led by Scott . |
| 10 | Leroy May sliced a low ball across the Barnet goal , only for Richard Huxford to deflect it past his own keeper . |
| 11 | It 's a it 's a very bold thing of Toby Baldwin to run him in this race it seems to me , you know I mean he definitely appeared to not like . |
| 12 | But that would still mean the year with the terrible Mother Clare to qualify herself for any kind of work . |
| 13 | We went to see Colin Wakeham to ask him on whose authority he 'd run the competiton . |
| 14 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 15 | Even its name is a hybrid of the Aymara verb to buy something for oneself and the Spanish diminutive . |
| 16 | Such a move could provide the mechanism for Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp to extricate themselves from OSF 's seemingly doomed operating system effort which they have each supported to the tune of tens of millions of dollars . |
| 17 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish warned the rest of his expensive stars last night they ca n't always expect £3.3million striker Alan Shearer to save them with one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've no doubt he 'll ask Dr Curtis to admit her to a cardiac ward . ’ |
| 19 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 20 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 21 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |
| 22 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 23 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |
| 24 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |
| 25 | By 17 October Mola 's troops were only 30 kilometres from Madrid , causing President Azaña to remove himself to the safety of Barcelona . |
| 26 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 27 | The rank is unique to the RUC , and a proposal by Sir Hugh to abolish it in a restructuring package he put to the Police Authority two years ago caused anger within senior members of the force . |
| 28 | Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy . |
| 29 | KEVIN MORAN today urged Irish pal Roy Keane to join him at Blackburn Rovers . |
| 30 | Anyway , I only have to look around the Dreamflight group to see lots of children who are worse off than me , ’ she said . |