Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 3 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 4 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had this meeting on Wake Island that I described to you when they would n't get out of the planes , all attempts to persuade MacArthur to behave in a reasonable fashion . |
| 7 | Opposition leaders stated their concern that the PRI would push through an amendment to allow Salinas to run for a second term as president in 1994 . |
| 8 | Peres ' first act was to telephone Shamir and invite Likud to co-operate in a new broad-based coalition . |
| 9 | It was like Jean to think of a happy family reason for a slight disappearance . |
| 10 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 11 | LOWER Ormeau residents staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest at a Royal Black Preceptory march past the bookies shop where five Catholics were murdered by loyalist terrorists last year . |
| 12 | After the election , opposition groups again protested against allowing the MRF to operate as a political party . |
| 13 | They would have preferred England to lose in a genuine climax than to win by such underhand means . |
| 14 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 15 | Another roundshot went close enough to Sharpe to sound like a sudden harsh whip-cracking wind . |
| 16 | A nicely placed observer speculates that if Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture , does well with the Destiny desktop operating system , that that will convince Novell chief Ray Noorda to go for a bigger piece of USL : he already owns the largest outside share . |
| 17 | Xhibition 93 has managed to get COSE to agree to a question-and-answer session by application developers and computing managers during the Xhibition Executive Conference in San Jose . |
| 18 | On 22 October 1980 Gabriel Ferrucci , president of Raybestos Manhattan 's international division , flew into Cork to appear at a joint press conference with IDA at which the company announced its intention to pull out of Ireland . |
| 19 | The glamour of Monte Carlo was renowned so they were overjoyed when a troupe was summoned from England to appear in a special show for Prince Rainier 's father at the Opera House . |
| 20 | One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research . |
| 21 | Mr Biffen 's plea at the monthly meeting of Aberdeen and Kincardine NFU area executive followed on from an Ellon branch resolution urging the NFU to detail on a regular basis . |
| 22 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 23 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 24 | A formal launch of the permanent exhibition , created by Liverpool 's Walton Group , will take place next May to coincide with a magnificent modern armada of more than 40 warships to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | The effect of the premedication did help Mr Reynolds to relax for a short while prior to going to theatre . |
| 26 | From living near the edge of a hot , steamy jungle in Army married quarters and coming back to England to live in a little house in Catterick Camp with snow everywhere , myself and my son , who was eight years old at the time , were sitting eating porridge feeling miserable and cold waiting for a plumber to come and mend a burst pipe . |
| 27 | But when Geoff Hamilton handed me a chunk of Barnsdale to turn into a well-planted garden , I had to put my money where my mouth was . |
| 28 | But some foreign bankers also expect South Korea to develop into a regional financial centre second only to Hong Kong on the Asian mainland . |
| 29 | A GHOST called Percy is teaching toddler Jasmin Griggs to speak in a northern accent . |
| 30 | She stood back , allowing Loretta to step into a wide hall . |