Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent sprinted up the dock and spotted the President 's granddaughter . |
| 2 | In 1971 an agreement was signed with the British Channel Tunnel Company Ltd and the Société Française du Tunnel Sous la Manche to carry out the project on the basis of a mixture of risk capital and government guaranteed loans . |
| 3 | On arrival , Stirling divided up the area between the two squadrons . |
| 4 | As Lisa laid down the phone her hand was shaking . |
| 5 | His health , never very good , began to fail in 1851 , and in August 1854 , he proceeded to Germany to try out the mineral waters there , but died on 25th November 1854 at Cannstadt , near Stuttgart . |
| 6 | Bernard stubbed out the cigarette and got to his feet . |
| 7 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 8 | Lisa snatched up the phone , annoyed at her own forgetfulness . |
| 9 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 10 | The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside . |
| 11 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 12 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 13 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 14 | He and wife Sally Ann show off the card ( above ) . |
| 15 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 16 | Christopher Hill has emphasised how Milton explicitly has Samson bring down the temple on ‘ Lords , ladies , captains , counsellors , or priests , /Their choice nobility and flower ’ ( 11.1653–4 ) allowing the vulgar [ i.e. the common people ] ‘ who stood without ’ to escape . |
| 17 | And Andy written down the back if you want to scratch it . |
| 18 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 19 | Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling . |
| 20 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 21 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 22 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 23 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 24 | Pauline and Pat climb out the window |
| 25 | Watson , who turned to crime after moving to London , slumped in the dock of Inner London Crown Court as Judge Brian Pryor handed out the sentence on Monday . |
| 26 | ABOVE : Old man Roberts checks out the family album . |
| 27 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 28 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 29 | Corbett handed over the coin , let the man go and leaned against the wall . |
| 30 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |