Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having reached the age of 50 a month ago , Britt was quite content to leave California and settle down somewhere less extravagant but Jim loves Los Angeles and does n't intend to leave the city . ’ |
| 2 | Watch out for a fairweather friend or a back stabbing buddy Wednesday and do n't be too disappointed or upset if someone you like and admire turns out to be a real rotter with feet of clay . |
| 3 | Watch out for a fair- weather friend or a back stabbing buddy Wednesday and do n't be too disappointed or upset if someone you like and admire turns out to be a real rotter with feet of clay . |
| 4 | Cameron found Donald Stewart and set off beside him towards Weem , which lay among its woodlands in a light blue haze of evening smoke . |
| 5 | You can visit a Motown museum in Detroit , but if you want to meet Kevin Saunderson or see where Derrick May grew up , you 'd be out of luck . |
| 6 | I had never met David Waite and did n't know what he thought . |
| 7 | " Nonsense ! " roared Dr Dunstaple and started forward as if he meant to make a physical assault on Dr McNab . |
| 8 | Island Records , never the exploiters of Marley 's music some believe ( Lee Parry once claimed on quickly deleted vinyl that the company ‘ Kill Bob Marley and take away his royalties ’ ) , have recently issued the ‘ Talkin' Blues ’ album of out-takes , and last year released several Marley albums afresh on tape and CD . |
| 9 | Walker dropped Mark Robins and brought in Efan Ekoku but Norwich looked woefully short of menace in attack . |
| 10 | A tiny green bulb winked on , wired to the back of the flat at eye level , and Jeanette McArdle became Coco Wunderbar and stepped out into the darkness . |
| 11 | ‘ So you are going to play Sherlock Holmes and go around with a magnifying glass looking for footprints ? |
| 12 | In the morning , I telephoned Mrs Baudelaire and listened again to the almost girlish voice on the wire . |
| 13 | It seemed to float above the town , particularly when one approached from the south , from the flats , and as you climbed Steep Hill and came nearer , so it became less of a mirage and more of a stone reality . |
| 14 | After Nichol dropped Miss Jeannette home he went to Catterick Bridge , allegedly in a sexually aroused state , attacked Mrs Chandler and returned home at 6am . |
| 15 | He showed no surprise on seeing Mrs Sutherland and called out angrily , before she could speak , ‘ Mrs S , we 've had the MMB cell-count . |
| 16 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 17 | By the time we had reached Skala Maries and turned inland , I had mastered the gear changes sufficiently for Beth to relax the vice-like grip she had on my waist and enjoy the scenery . |
| 18 | The barman establishes that we know Eric Gates and asks how his pigeons are getting on . |
| 19 | This , of course , was exactly what the heroines of women 's magazine stories felt in those years when they decided to chuck New York and go home to marry Henry . |
| 20 | It was interested in taking over a small mine called Wheal Concord but pulled out because financial prospects were poor . |
| 21 | I liked Alex Jennings 's put-upon , blustering John Worthing but warmed more to the ‘ decadent ’ Algernon of Richard E Grant with his fancy clothes and flow of even fancier aphorisms . |
| 22 | Alternatively , ascend Middlefell Buttress and continue directly up the hillside above to intercept the level path that originates from the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel ( 1 hour ) . |
| 23 | However , the line would cross Croydon Road and continue down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , but there would be connecting curves at the Robin Hood . |
| 24 | Frowning , he rang Mona Gage and hung up when her husband answered . |
| 25 | The hungry soulless being who served Crom Croich and walked abroad crying to be let in , and who carried on his back a dripping sack … |
| 26 | Ricco Cardoni robbed Peter Shirtliff and set up Joao Cruz for a simple finish that had Spora 's fans — all 26 of them — dancing with delight . |
| 27 | Continue on this track , cross Mill Clough and go on past Knipe Farm and aim for the corner of Fernlee Reservoir . |
| 28 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 29 | In 1166 he marched on the Breton capital , Rennes , deposed Duke Conan and took over the duchy in the name of Conan 's infant daughter and heiress Constance . |
| 30 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |