Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 2 | The three of them went into the hallway , the doctor leaving them while he went into Leeming 's room to carry out his duties . |
| 3 | At noon , Florrie could n't wait any longer and went round to Josh 's house to find out what had happened to Ebenezer . |
| 4 | It was not in Richard Branson 's instincts to look back , but occasionally — just occasionally — he thought about Student , and what it might have become . |
| 5 | He refers to Ian St.John , who used the Saints and Greavsie show to publicly doubt Gazza 's ability to come back . |
| 6 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 7 | After the failure of Hawkins 's attempt to open up a regular slave trade with South America , the English had paid only infrequent visits to the west coast of Africa , though a company to trade with ‘ Ginny and Binny ’ ( Guinea and Benin ) had been launched in 1618 . |
| 8 | One wonders whether Richard 's failure to look up from his work ( perhaps copying a manuscript ) betokened exasperation at the interruption . |
| 9 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
| 10 | The Webbs ' failure to pick up the proposal would have been forgivable but for one thing ; and that is their criticism of his failure to comprehend before they were born their theory of rent — a theory which , whatever might be its academic merits , provided no practical help to Governments . |
| 11 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 12 | Another set of problems at the level of institutional approval was created for the CNAA by the decision of the University of London to run down its external degrees , and the CNAA 's agreement to take up the reins where possible and appropriate . |
| 13 | 10.30am It 's Alan 's job to set up the picture , arrange various props and decide on the complicated lighting . |
| 14 | Frank 's inability to stand up for himself was brought home to us by Mazzin 's relationship with him . |
| 15 | We 'd both been inspired by Frank 's release to step up our fitness campaign . |
| 16 | Association chairman , Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate that Orient were prepared to allow a man of Frank 's talent to take on the job . ’ |
| 17 | Waiting for Jane 's Addiction to come on is like waiting at the altar — there are moments when you 're certain they will blow you out . |
| 18 | It was Heather 's turn to wake up for the forecast … ‘ 4,5,6,7 , even gale 8 ! ’ |
| 19 | I am afraid we shall want matter of Molly Leaper 's works to make out the bulk of the new volume . |
| 20 | Until Lockwood took over , all four curators had keys of their own strongrooms ; Lockwood 's decision to hand over strongroom keys to the security staff is said to have incurred ‘ considerable resentment ’ . |
| 21 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 22 | The last piece of territory he and Blanche needed to explore was one the superintendent had not yet entered deliberately , Dexter suspected : Nicola Sharpe 's drive to take over Jane Pargeter 's job . |
| 23 | Loretta 's attempt to work out her next move was interrupted by Veronica 's voice . |
| 24 | It falls to Fairey 's Firefly to notch up its fiftieth anniversary — Ken Wixey celebrates . |
| 25 | Sainsbury 's likes to keep up with children 's computer crazes and , following the success of the SuperMario party cake designed by Jane Asher , SuperMario Mini rolls have now been launched . |
| 26 | The meeting supported Russia 's request to take over the Soviet Union 's seat on the UN Security Council , and Russia , Ukraine and Byelarus , already UN members , pledged to support other member states ' applications for full UN membership . |
| 27 | Julia was so interested in the cross-examination that she almost disobeyed Anthony 's instructions to go back to the Campo San Maurizio for lunch and spend the afternoon in bed , but , remembering how weak she had felt the previous evening , she did as he said . |
| 28 | Slump forces Norma 's shop to shut down |
| 29 | The ANC 's decision to pull out of constitutional talks was supported by several other CODESA participants who also withdrew . |
| 30 | Sappho wrote a few nicely pulsating ones , but I ca n't see Anya finding her way to Mephistco 's archive to chase up the 1,000-year-out-of-print Collected Works . |