Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life . |
| 2 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 3 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |
| 4 | So at 18 , she seized her chance to leave her Ilford , Essex home , waving a fond farewell to her parents and sister , and accepted a place at Hull University to study for a degree in Operational Research and Management . |
| 5 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 6 | There 's a story of a Hercules which left Ascension Island to go to the Falklands . |
| 7 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 8 | The donkey had been moved from its Exmoor sanctuary to graze during the summer . |
| 9 | Giggs ' goal was highlighted on Match of the Day , demonstrating uncanny reactions in taking advantage of Dean Austin 's stumble , slipping the ball through Jason Cundy 's legs and rounding keeper Ian Walker to shoot into a vacant net from an awkward angle . |
| 10 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 11 | As well as the four responsible for the Tate slayings , Manson also invited Family members Clem Gorgan and Leslie Van Houten to join in the fun . |
| 12 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 13 | Mrs Simmons drives to town each Saturday afternoon to shop at the market . |
| 14 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 15 | Ray Ranson , United 's skipper , was booked for his protests , which were maintained by his team-mates when Blackburn won possession and Mark Atkins headed down for David Speedie to score with a half-volley . |
| 16 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
| 17 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 18 | ‘ Your mother told Sergeant Curtis that Riddle left home at half-past seven on Friday evening to go to the yard ; was that unusual ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ MAGGIE ACTS ’ or ‘ MAGGIE STEPS IN ’ are familiar tabloid headlines as Mrs Thatcher convenes seminars of experts at Downing Street to cope with a pressing issue . |
| 20 | In the sixtieth minute he burst between Shepherd and Webb before drawing Shepherd before drawing Richardson from his goal to square the ball across the penalty area for Neil Owen to shoot into the empty net . |
| 21 | This can mean meeting the Press on a Monday or Tuesday night to explain about the performance , answer any questions and arrange interviews . |
| 22 | The 23-year-old Tynesider , now recovered from a serious pelvic injury , came on as substitute against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night to lay on the second goal for record signing Don Goodman . |
| 23 | The union 's national executive is calling for a ‘ yes ’ vote and is likely to ask Nottinghamshire businesses to close for the day when a strike is called . |
| 24 | While their three sons were young , a favourite treat was being taken by their father , one by one , to Paddington Station to listen to the Great Western Railway Band which played there on Sunday mornings . |
| 25 | Jim Blackie , 41 , remembers catching the bus from his home in Gateshead every Friday night to go to the Oxford in the Sixties ‘ Everybody used to walk around in circles looking for a girl . |
| 26 | They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat . |
| 27 | Mark and I went down to Yorkshire on Saturday morning to stay with an old University friend of mine and to go to the Bedale Point-to-Point with a group of people . |
| 28 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 29 | She advanced the opinion that the bird would n't last much longer , and recommended Miss Vine to think about the purchase of a new one . |
| 30 | The well-organised Russian rearguard should have been pierced five minutes into the second half when Michael Thomas found himself just six yards out , only for Dmitri Khlestov to clear off the line . |