Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 2 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 3 | The full extent of the weakness in sterling may only become apparent today when trading in the US returns to normal levels after a holiday yesterday . |
| 4 | The latest available information , contained in the Hawker accounts for 1990 and based on an actuarial valuation at March 1989 , shows a surplus of £111m . |
| 5 | They have lost not only Graham Marshall , the international back-row forward whose right-knee ligaments were torn in the January match against Watsonians , but also Scott Nichol , the enterprising , fast midfield back , who broke an ankle in the same game . |
| 6 | The act , who have been playing dates in the US , including guest appearances on the Lollapalooza tour , plan to come to the UK to coincide with the single 's release . |
| 7 | George 's merits were recognised within the game with a number of minor representative honours , and when he left us he had a spell with Millwall before returning to the Midlands to play for Kidderminster . |
| 8 | Hall 's extension to 20th March was considered by The Saturday Review to be such a ‘ pitiful and illusory concession ’ as to make it hardly worthwhile , while the Architectural Association , on 5th November , 1856 , put in a strong plea to Hall for a further extension of time . |
| 9 | Overall , compared with the 1992 general election results , support for the DC dropped by 4.8 per cent , for the Socialists by 3.6 per cent and for the PDS by 1.9 per cent , while the Northern League increased its share of the vote by 3.4 per cent , La Rete by 2.7 per cent and the MSI by 1.7 per cent . |
| 10 | Support for the CDA fell from 33.0 per cent and 35.3 per cent in the two earlier elections to 32.6 per cent . |
| 11 | Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government . |
| 12 | Most people visit the town to ride on the Pichi Richi Railway a service operated through the Flinders Ranges by a veteran steam locomotive known as the " Coffee Pot " . |
| 13 | Together they sailed along the Thames accompanied by a flotilla of dinghies to present their bid to a Department of the Environment official at Westminster Pier . |
| 14 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 15 | The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 16 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 17 | The Intergovernmental Group for Indonesia ( IGGI ) meeting in the Netherlands agreed on June 12 to provide a record US$4,750 million in aid and credits to Indonesia in 1991/92 , a 5.3 per cent increase over the 1990/91 package . |
| 18 | Jean Dondelinger , European Commissioner for Information , Communications and Culture , writing in the May issue of Connaissance des Arts on the European Community 's official commission of a sculpture called ‘ Europe à Coeur ’ , by Ludmila Tcherina . |
| 19 | Recently a ‘ successful ’ horseperson came from the USA to judge at a major Australian show and to give a seminar on training horses . |
| 20 | By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK . |
| 21 | In the event , an RVF advantage was generally observed implying , according to Moscovitch , that the letters presented to the LVF had to be transferred to the left hemisphere for processing . |
| 22 | Then he turned his head to one side as if he , too , was listening to the Maltesers rolling past the front row , under the bed on which he and Andrea had cavorted , towards the French windows on the far side of his bedroom , and out into the garden . |
| 23 | The closure problem has come through in the appearance of another function F in the equation for E ; F is related to the Fourier transform of the triple correlation . |
| 24 | The chairman of the Society of Authors , Anthony Sampson , has written to the BBC to protest about the shelving of ‘ Bookshelf ’ , broadcast for the past 15 years and the only programme on Radio 4 devoted specifically to books . |
| 25 | On Nov. 1 Lukanov threatened to resign unless there was all-party support for the reforms ; subsequently describing the political mood in Bulgaria as " masochistic " , he appealed to the UDF to rise above party politics , and on Nov. 9 he reportedly offered to suspend his membership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) in exchange for the UDF 's joining a coalition government . |
| 26 | To make most rivers navigable , the water level must be raised by building weirs ; there is little doubt that the navigation structures built on the Leicestershire Soar in the 1770s worsened the local drainage , as did eighteenth- and nineteenth-century navigation works on the Thames and in Somerset . |
| 27 | ‘ And I 've noticed no change since then , looking at the US rallies on the telly . |
| 28 | They came back to England , recruited fellow-Puritans ( so that the people from the Netherlands were only about one-sixth of the whole group ) , hired the Mayflower and sailed across the Atlantic to land at what they called Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts Bay . |
| 29 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 30 | Once the London JAC was established , the SCCs were instructed by the LCC to co-operate with the local committees , having as their principal duty the reporting of the economic , social , and educational condition of the school-leavers , while the local JACs were to supervise the conditions of employment , ensuring that they were as favourable as possible for the young people , and that ‘ round ’ children were put into ‘ round holes ’ . |