Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 2 | But some enterprising sponsor could do worse than bring him over to Scotland before the Scottish Championships and the World Championship trials in Birmingham in July . |
| 3 | Wright is still suffering with the groin injury that ruled him out of England 's World Cup qualifier 12 days ago , while Adams also missed the Chelsea defeat after falling down some stairs on a night out last week , and needing 29 stitches in a cut forehead . |
| 4 | After he had put the phone down , he looked at his watch before the inevitable fingers pushed through his hair , forcing it back , and reached for his glasses , that magic movement that turned him back to Dr Rafaelo . |
| 5 | But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney . |
| 6 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 7 | Manchester United skipper Bryan Robson has recovered from the muscle strain that kept him out of Saturday 's win over Premier League leaders , Norwich , leaving boss Alex Ferguson with a headache . |
| 8 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 9 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 10 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 11 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 12 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 13 | So we go up and pick her up in Kensington , bring her back , she unpacks her bag and plonks herself down , she eats everything that 's put in front of her , and second helpings , |
| 14 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 15 | The same undertaker as had handled the disposal of Jacob 's body would collect the coffins and bring them back to Suffolk . |
| 16 | In 1686 the English envoy to the States General , Bevil Skelton [ q.v. ] , and some of James II 's army officers attempted to kidnap Peyton and bring him back to England , but failed , and the affair caused a diplomatic incident . |
| 17 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 18 | She took off the snazzy shades she had taken from the preacherman they 'd jump-rammed this morning , and passed them back to Andrew Jean . |
| 19 | The Head gaped , and passed him on to Sylvester . |
| 20 | Culley took change from a ten pound note from the barman and passed it on to Stan , then carried the drinks over to the table where Kelso was sitting . |
| 21 | An unsuspecting crew member intercepted a call destined for the prince and passed it on to Diana . |
| 22 | Corbett studied the document and passed it back to Benstede . |
| 23 | Stone for Forest Webb keeps it in play and turns it back to Phillips and then Hill with a lovely little header back to make sure Leicester keep possession . |
| 24 | I was n't prepared to put things under my arm and hawk them around in Bond Street so there was a long gap . |
| 25 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 26 | He pulled several wristwatches from his pocket and flung one down to Bill . |
| 27 | The Campbell yanked a Mills bomb from a camouflaged pocket and flung it up at Cornelius . |
| 28 | Polish technicians were at work assembling and checking it out during mid-October . |
| 29 | Get hold of Topper and send him round to Rhoda Brocklebank . |
| 30 | The Malvern Hills Conservators who own the land under an Act of Parliament , claim they 've breached by-laws , and want them out by Friday . |