Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , there was pressing new business : the setting up of a provisional state in North Africa , preparation for its transfer back to France , supervision of the French war effort , and planning for postwar reconstruction . |
| 2 | Eudoxus scorns this answer , arguing that it is typical of acts with failed human agency ( the ‘ good counsels ’ devised ) to throw the reasons for their failure on to divine agency , ‘ so as to excuse their own follies and imperfections ’ . |
| 3 | It is to be noted further that the Act , no doubt inadvertently , facilitates such behaviour by providing that the Tribunal shall give reasons for its decisions only to the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 5 | He intends to make spelunkers of us all , carving the galleries for his Guggenheim out of the core of Mönchsberg mountain , against which Salzburg is nestled . |
| 6 | Having done so , he won the Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award for our region twice in four months , having impressed no less a seasoned observer than the great Bill Nicholson of Tottenham and England . |
| 7 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 8 | Long-tailed ducks also prepare to give up their marine existence for their summer home on the tundra pools of Iceland or northern Europe . |
| 9 | He managed to head this sentence off its track just in time . |
| 10 | And Apple ( the name was inspired by a Magritte painting that McCartney had recently acquired ) was born out of that sense that the Beatles had to start taking responsibility for their world instead of being acted upon by a panoply of ‘ men in grey suits ’ . |
| 11 | I should have let you take responsibility for your actions instead of trying to protect you . |
| 12 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 13 | It was Mark Spicer , the son of the Royal Bucks secretary , and he was earning some extra money during his time off from university . |
| 14 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 15 | The sense of liberation engendered when the Tiananmen verdict was reversed led sympathisers of the Li Yi Zhe group to bring calls for their release out into the open . |
| 16 | I 'll give you the money for your flight back to wherever it is you came from — ’ he might have said ‘ crawled from ’ , such was the contempt in his voice ‘ — all right ? ’ |
| 17 | Working people and shoppers here have as much right to sit in the sunshine at lunchtime for a few minutes as their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 18 | In this case , the phenomenon is the appearance of attributive adjectives after their noun instead of before ; the by-product is the opportunity for speakers to use this less usual placing , where it is available , as a marker of emphasis ; the true cause of the phenomenon , in our view , is yet to be established . |
| 19 | They tub the velvet off their antlers on to the trees and take off the bark but , , they do n't do enough damage to matter . |
| 20 | no you give me a pound for my lunch out of there |
| 21 | Stuart 's coach at Penn State is Barry Gorman well known to Irish League fans during his spell here with Linfield and other clubs . |
| 22 | The journal bridges the gap between theory and practice through its reports both on recent research and on the planning and implementation of practical programmes . |
| 23 | But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general . |
| 24 | When Darwin delivered his collection of birds and mammals to the Zoological Society for identification three months after his arrival back in England , Gould probably welcomed the opportunity of finding out more about the voyage , particularly the month or so Darwin spent in Australia and Tasmania . |
| 25 | John McGuire was slightly the worse for wear after his night out with his wife . |
| 26 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 27 | ‘ Eddy , ’ he said sharply , leaning forwards and bringing the front legs of his chair down onto the floor with a crash , so that Bob looked up startled . |
| 28 | Our model does predict that long-period comets with kinetic energies in the tens of kiloton range should catastrophically disrupt and deposit the bulk of their energy just above 60km altitude , so the fates of these objects are consistent with cometary airbursts . |
| 29 | Pentagon officials had hoped to have the bulk of their troops out of the country by the end of March . |
| 30 | Lucy , easing the temporary bulk of her stomach out from behind the table , stood up as well . |