Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , relatives of the victims who died along with Zia have now demanded that Pakistan ask the US to extradite Malik for questioning . |
| 2 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 3 | Indeed , the Court of Appeal has indicated that the law laid down in Lonrho has effectively resulted in the unlawful means category no longer existing in any meaningful form ; but until the law is finally clarified by the House of Lords it seems justifiable to continue to speak of two forms of the tort . |
| 4 | Check train times before paying up too — last connection from Leeds back down to Oxford leaves too soon after the end of a game to be any use ; it may be the same from Oxford back to Leeds too . |
| 5 | Muriel , the only daughter , was in her early teens , the boys all younger , down to Herbert aged just four . |
| 6 | Boyd 's cross from the left was flicked in by Nicholas.Saints broke immediately and Redford soared to head home Maskrey 's cross . |
| 7 | Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area , allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for Maskell to shoot home . |
| 8 | With three overs left 35 were still needed ; Walsh was duly hammered for 16 , all but one to Lamb , but the penultimate over from Patterson yielded only six . |
| 9 | Sadie was tellin' me that bloke they ‘ ung last year fer killin' that shopkeeper over in Stepney used ter be one o' the crowd 'er Billy 's gettin' wiv . ’ |
| 10 | The Dryopithecini are known from 12 to 8Myr deposits in France , Austria , Germany , Spain and Hungary , and similar fossils from Georgia through to China have also been attributed to this genus . |
| 11 | Over at Cheltenham racecourse yesterday history was made as the runners and riders came to post for the first-ever Sunday National Hunt meeting … around thirteen thousand people turned out to watch … and racing hopes , of course , that steeplechasing on Sunday will become a firm fixture … |
| 12 | On his return on 19 November , he hardly had time to catch up with his unfinished business before he was off to Brussels to deliver yet another lecture . |
| 13 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 14 | DIY inquiry : A public inquiry into a top DIY chain store 's bid to set up in Stockton opens today in the town hall . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got to come up to London to see yet another policeman , ’ Veronica explained . |
| 16 | It was up to Joyce to respond accordingly . |
| 17 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 18 | The big decisions thrown up by PESC have always been taken by full Cabinet , though Macmillan set a precedent followed by future prime ministers when he established in autumn 1960 a small Ministerial Action Group on Public Expenditure , known as ‘ Magpie ’ . |
| 19 | The company claimed that Fowler , a former senior employee and eight other former employees and a new company set up by Fowler had wrongfully made use of confidential information which had been acquired during employment . |
| 20 | And she would enjoy impressing him with what she had managed to find out about Hugh Puddephat so far . |
| 21 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 22 | Getting supplies to this place two hundred miles out of Amman has also proved a nightmare . |
| 23 | In Eastern Europe the idea that every sparrow 's breath is measured out in Moscow dies hard . |
| 24 | Mr Davies told the Press Association later that regular flights back from Normandy cost less than £200 , yet Mr Lilley spent £2,000 on each of two urgent chartered flights home to Northolt . |
| 25 | In March and April 1982 well-meaning planning experts back in Whitehall had obviously jumped to the conclusion that in the wet , cold , boggy desolation of East Falkland , dehydrated Arctic rations would be the ideal fare . |
| 26 | The last travel journal ends with Gide back in Cuverville dreaming again of a loss of self — ‘ to be rid of oneself , so that one blue breath , in which I am dissolved , might journey on … ! — a dissolution which would redeem loss , but only by disavowing the recognition that what is most intensely desired is lost to the past . |
| 27 | Baling out over Malta had now become a somewhat risky business , as Doug Whitney recalls : ‘ They ( the Maltese ) were so bitter about the bombing that they inclined to treat anyone baling out as an enemy and this became so bad we all carried revolvers to protect ourselves until we could convince them otherwise . |
| 28 | Back to Denis Shields again . |
| 29 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 30 | Yet she did n't want him to go back to Australia thinking so badly of her . |