Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ten minutes after the break Middlesbrough suddenly burst into attack with two good chances in a minute .
2 to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much
3 On his infrequent leaves , the permissionaire from Verdun naturally gravitated towards Paris .
4 Pakistan only came into existence as an independent country shortly after the end of the Second World War and consequently shares much of its cultural and rug-making heritage with India .
5 Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 .
6 Oh yes , I 'd like to erm er concur on what Linda just said about options , I do n't think we should give erm raffle tickets away as has been suggested .
7 Ellen just went to sleep .
8 Mr Koch soon had to back-track .
9 Corbett quickly looked at Ranulf , who sat as if carved from stone , transfixed by their rapid questions like a spectator at some skilful sword fight .
10 Just possibly , Justine still lived in Geneva ; but in Chapuis she was now one with Shelley 's dead , marching underground …
11 Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay .
12 In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight .
13 Sainte-Beuve tells us that David always spoke of Diderot with gratitude .
14 Scott also worked with Ruskin in 1854 , when he added the chancel to the Camden Church at Camberwell , but as Ruskin turned his attention away from architecture he became scornful of Scott 's efforts .
15 Irwin also canvassed with Salisbury an improved form of dyarchy , the elaborate system set up in 1921 whereby elected Indian ministers in the provincial governments were entrusted with various unexciting portfolios , while British officials remained responsible for the essentials of law , order and taxation .
16 Kuwait also protested about Iraq 's failure to release Kuwaitis and members of other nationalities who had been imprisoned since the Gulf crisis , or to allow Red Cross representatives to visit prisoners .
17 ( Napoleon also wrote to Josephine ‘ Coming to Paris in two days — Do n't wash ! ’ )
18 President François Mitterrand also announced on Oct. 22 , in return for an undertaking by farmers to end violent protests , that the government would introduce border controls on imported meat , reduce land and inheritance taxes , encourage the growing of crops for the production of environmentally friendly fuel , and introduce a new pension scheme to allow farmers to retire at 55 .
19 Freud also corresponded with Wilhelm Fliess , a Berlin physician , between 1887 and 1902 .
20 Sir Gordon Willmer also proceeded by reference to the breach of undertaking .
21 Neil also read in Mrs. Jervis , Mrs. Jewkes , Lord Darnford an the Cardinal .
22 Bainsfair Sharkey Trott and Butterfield Day Devito Hockney also presented to group marketing manager Mike Hind , but KWS 's creative solution swung the decision , he says .
23 David also pointed to Explorers Inn which he claimed , on the same size of land , netted its owner a turnover of $800,000 per year : a
24 So , one night , it was decided to ask the audience if they wanted an Arts Lab , and during one of his talks to the audience , as David also acted as compère , he asked whether they would like an Arts Lab in Beckenham , with the folk club being the start of it .
25 This was not , however , accepted either by the English or by the Pope , to whom Edward repeatedly appealed for help .
26 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
27 Countess Spencer often stayed at Park House while Ruth , Lady Fermoy taught the children card games .
28 ‘ This photograph Rex Cunningham supposedly saw in Clare 's possession : the one of Jack Cornelius .
29 Branson almost wept in gratitude .
30 The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror .
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