Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 2 | The fellow looked furtively round , licked his lips , and beckoned Corbett and Ranulf into a shadowy window recess . |
| 3 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 4 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 5 | Glad of our meeting in Vancouver and hope for a reunion in New York , Moscow , Samarkand or the Volga ’ . |
| 6 | In 1884 , disenchanted with his life at Eton , Salt decided to live at Tilford in Surrey and concentrate on a simple life , following his many interests in the field of humanitarianism . |
| 7 | Instead Athelstan looked across the river at the ships plying along the quays of Billingsgate and Queenshithe in a scene of frenetic activity . |
| 8 | Lewis will return to Britain on September 18 after preparing in Washington and switch to a Cardiff headquarters . |
| 9 | Should I get a car to NY and get on a plane tonight , or do tonight 's show and cancel the two tomorrow . |
| 10 | If OUP are entirely satisfied with the method of text capture and with a reasonably large proportion of the machine-readable output ( say , the equivalent of one volume of OED ) , there is no reason why the first editing phase , i.e. the integration of OED and Supplement into a single work , should not be begun , assuming no other technical problems prevented this . |
| 11 | And it 's very hot and not nice for children , so you can stay in England and go to a boarding school like Alex — wo n't that be fun ? ’ |
| 12 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 13 | The first Workshop will start on 31 January and continue on a day at the beginning of March . |
| 14 | She did n't believe she 'd marry Petya Tcherkassoff and move to a dacha on the steppes any more , but she thought she might see twenty-five . |
| 15 | Therapy ? kick off sounding like Nirvana and end with a final guitar stroke that imitates The Beatles . |
| 16 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 17 | Bear left , cross Beldon Beck and walk to a gate signed Caperby . |
| 18 | At one stage Glasser is invited to look at a tenement close — by Bernard , a Communist who was to fight in Spain and return with an altered mind . |
| 19 | The Northern Arts ' Writers Awards 1992 will give two writers the chance to take off to Ireland and work on a literary project free from the distractions of everyday life . |
| 20 | The Lewis camp , meanwhile , are considering a three-fight programme which would begin with London-born Alex Stewart and culminate in a showdown with Bruno . |
| 21 | Another month passed while they continued the old routines before company orders revealed that they were to march south to the Marne and prepare for a counter-attack against General von Ludendorff . |
| 22 | Enough to have Jay fly home on the wings of Peter Pan and sleep like an angel . |
| 23 | The alternative is to defy the IMF and live with a massive deficit , at least until the second budget next December . |
| 24 | This , however , is caused by the presence of clay minerals in the carbonates , which decrease in abundance upwards away from the Grauer Salzton and result in an anomalous log response . |
| 25 | The Israeli representative at Lausanne knew this position , for a Ramallah delegate had proposed that Israel should agree to the repatriation of 400,000 refugees ‘ who would live in peace with Israel and act as a ‘ peace bridge' ’ between Israel and the Arab states ' . |
| 26 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 27 | In the evening of May 20 the King personally intervened in the crisis , summoning Suchinda and Chamlong to a meeting which was televised live . |
| 28 | As vicar , the Rev W H Dale Chapman owned a piece of land which went down to the lake but , when he began to plan such a service , the idea came to him to follow the example of Christ and preach from a boat . |
| 29 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 30 | Hugh Bayley , York 's Labour candidate hoping to overturn Conservative Conal Gregory 's slim 147 majority , said Labour would order the trains needed by BR and invest in a punctual , clean , public service railway . |