Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 2 | At the same time he began to see Frances secretly at an address in South Kensington in central London . |
| 3 | I would pick Rocastle to start and bring Strach on after an hour ( or earlier in emergency ) asa tactical substitution or as a fresh pair of legs : - ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 5 | Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck . |
| 6 | Some councillors , who saw Bernard only as a source of irritation , might have welcomed that . |
| 7 | To believe them , Karen and I shanghaied the shrinking Dennis on to a punt by some underhand ruse worthy of a ‘ once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine ’ melodrama . |
| 8 | " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so . |
| 9 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |
| 10 | Bypass go-ahead at last but pressure group favours rail link The long-awaited Guisborough bypass was officially given the go-ahead by Cleveland county council on Tuesday just as a transport group called for a re-think on the multi-million pound scheme . |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin , 62 , returned to the Kremlin yesterday after a weekend spent contemplating his humiliation last week by the mainly conservative Congress of People 's Deputies , which rejected virtually every one of his proposals . |
| 12 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 13 | AN Italian admiral laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Valletta yesterday in a gesture of reconciliation for the part played by Mussolini 's air force in the Axis onslaught on Malta 50 years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 15 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 16 | ‘ You want me to put Cindy Hill up for a night ? ’ |
| 17 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 18 | They kept Orrell out with a lot of judgement and a bit of luck . |
| 19 | I have n't had Toby out for a while . |
| 20 | In any case , he said , picking up arguments , I was n't insured , did n't have a competition licence , the circuit management would n't like it , what would Tom Walkinshaw and Benetton say if I took Martin Brundle out in a ball of fire ? … |
| 21 | Dalglish will be welcomed back to Anfield tomorrow with a handshake from Graeme Souness , who will then aim to spoil his emotional homecoming . |
| 22 | SCOTLAND meet Romania at Murrayfield today in a match which should be a useful warm-up for the forthcoming Five Nations Championship . |
| 23 | SDLP leader John Hume flew to Portugal today for a summit of the leaders of Europe 's social democratic and labour parties . |
| 24 | The recipes do n't actually tell the adventurers what the potions do , of course ( although an Alchemist among the adventurers is allowed an Int test with a +20 bonus to guess the general nature of the effects ) , but they are worth 150 GCs apiece to an alchemist . |
| 25 | Altogether there were forty of us , all from Fontanellato apart from a shipowner from Genoa who had been spending a holiday in his house in the country . |
| 26 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 27 | Also , it was argued , the club 's annual report , for which Mr Gillespie again as a director was responsible , pointed out under the heading : ‘ Directors and their interests , ’ that his shares were subject to an option to MIH . |
| 28 | The morning sun was Khepri either as a scarab or a scarab-headed man , and was also Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , depicted as a falcon or as a falcon-headed man with a sun disk on top of his head . |
| 29 | She had this absurd desire to swing Lucy round like a child and walk holding her hand . |
| 30 | In our example , this allowance relates to improvements performed by Y. Thus in a claim by Z against Y , Y is entitled to deduct the improvement allowance when returning Z the price paid by Z. |