Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ardura : A texturised nylon cloth with high tear and abrasion resistance , woven exclusively for Berghaus and specially coated to improve water resistance . |
| 2 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 3 | In the first place , perhaps , as many social thinkers from Bernstein to Schumpeter and beyond have suggested , by the economic successes of capitalism . |
| 4 | Magheralin Parish Church plans to buy and stock a 100 acre farm in Uganda and already support has been promised from many sections of the community . |
| 5 | The beast-face leered at Rex and then began to laugh . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 7 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 8 | The plucky 14-year-old was determined however to experience the magic of DisneyWorld and never stopped smiling all week . |
| 9 | In response to demands by the new governments of Czechoslovakia and Hungary [ see p. 37195 ] and in line with the Soviet undertaking given in December 1989 to bring home all its foreign-based troops by the year 2000 [ see p. 37225 ] , the Soviet Union agreed during late February and early March to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
| 10 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 11 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 12 | The French had , like the Old Pretender , lost faith in the strategy of the roundabout approach via Scotland or the south-west of England and now planned to land at Maldon in Essex , a mere 42 miles [ 67 km ] from London . |
| 13 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 14 | Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . |
| 15 | ‘ Secondly , Philip hopes Edward will lay claim to Scotland and so become immersed in a tangled and lengthy war . ’ |
| 16 | Portugal , with star winger Paulo Futre back in the side after being dropped , will have been encouraged by Italy 's recent poor form which saw them held to a goalless draw in Scotland and then struggle to overcome Malta 2-1 . |
| 17 | Jim competes as a veteran in Nordic events in Scotland and still manages to come in 3rd or 4th overall . |
| 18 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 19 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
| 20 | I fell through the door with Marius and immediately started talking to a former member of the British Parachute Regiment who had known some friends of mine . |
| 21 | Since 1986 's ‘ It 's Only A Long Way Across ’ , his songs have come wrapped in an electric blanket which has been soaked in the bog-holes of Ireland and then dry cleaned in the side alleys of Greenwich Village . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , we are pressing for IMF teams already in Moscow and elsewhere to start preparing the ground . |
| 23 | ‘ What do you mean , Bobbie , by coming to Victoria and not coming to see me ? ’ |
| 24 | He copes well in situations involving Lennie and invariably seems to pick the best of a bad lot of consequences . |
| 25 | There is evidence that ions and electrons are exchanged between Io and the Jovian atmosphere , constituting massive electric currents that could help heat Io and thus help maintain its volcanic activity . |
| 26 | The Kenya administration in particular included a number of vigorous reformers , most prominent among them R.W. Hemsted and C.E.V. Buxton — both completely wrapped up in the Masai and both determined to bring them , under British supervision , into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | You say in your book that in June 1959 you had lunch at Claridge 's with Basil Taylor and then began collecting British art . |
| 28 | A water supply was very slow coming to Baldersdale and never did arrive at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 29 | Hardraw is a friendly little place , particularly on the day of the annual brass-band contest when bands from all over Yorkshire and beyond come to compete against each other and the treeless side of the little valley is carpeted with supporters and spectators picnicking oil the grass and the ringing of the sounding brass echoes from the steep gillsides . |
| 30 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |