Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 2 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 3 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 4 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 5 | ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 7 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 8 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 9 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 10 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 11 | And because , somehow , Luke Hunter had caught her off balance with his flowers and cryptic messages . |
| 12 | But the appearance of Howard when he came into the room must have impressed him in spite of himself — the bulging clear blue eyes , the eager lean of the body forward , the anxiety on the face to understand the world around him . |
| 13 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 14 | Hammond had a brush with the Commonwealth 's accounts committee in 1651 , but protested that he had accounted fully and properly for all the sums which he had received in all the three armies in which he had served ; he pointed out that his account from July 1649 on was with the army in Scotland , where by this time George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) had succeeded him as lieutenant-general of the ordnance . |
| 15 | By the end of November John Major had succeeded her as leader of the Conservative Party , a post she had held for nearly 16 years , and as Prime Minister , an office she had held since 1979 . |
| 16 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 17 | Following the failure of his appeal , the appellant wrote on 15 July 1989 complaining that Detective Constable Woodley , who had interviewed him in relation to the offence of which he was convicted , had fabricated admissions in the record of interview . |
| 18 | She was surprised that he 'd picked her in spite of her work . |
| 19 | It 's Freda Newcombe 's vision which has carried her through months of hard work and even harder fundraising . |
| 20 | Then Wally Watmough had called Frankie 's mam a gypsy-woman and his dad a little black man , and the smaller boy , enraged , had attacked him without thought for the consequences . |
| 21 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 22 | You may have caught him on television in 1991 when he was the studio expert for the BBC 's coverage of the Scrabble World Championship , or more recently introducing a video on the game . |
| 23 | In March 1991 , more people there voted to recall him as their deputy than had voted him into office in the election a year before . |
| 24 | Standing staring appalled at the devastation she had caused , she became aware that the Perks had not instantly attacked her in retaliation for their leader 's ignominious defeat . |
| 25 | When Eden , at Baldwin 's request , had telephoned him in Paris on the Sunday evening , he was resting and was pronounced unavailable . |
| 26 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 27 | It has signed a three-book contract and is so bullish that I 've included it in Ones to Watch even though I have not even had one chapter . |
| 28 | Petur Beron on Dec. 3 announced his intention to resign as chair of the UDF co-ordinating council ( he had succeeded to that post after Zhelev had resigned it in August upon being elected President ) . |
| 29 | We had booked it for Easter in 1962 , along with two friends from Glasgow . |
| 30 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |