Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I came through , Irene and I came through Colchester and we were going to Clacton . |
| 2 | Technically it can not , physically it can not , because we have such erm large programmes of development that you need the manpower , you need the muscle , and the majority of them have left now and that 'll be a new dilemma for Kuwait and it 's rebuilding operation to bring back people to help develop with it 's own Kuwaiti |
| 3 | So it was open day for Macgregor-hunting and they were pursued like animals . |
| 4 | Three of her ten books were about Ireland and she was honoured in 1904 with an honorary D.Litt. from Dublin University . |
| 5 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 6 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 7 | Korda signed him to a seven-year contract , after the very encouraging reviews of Dolwyn and he was put to work . |
| 8 | Fortunately for Johnson , his kick just missed the posterior of a leading English League official , Derek Lloyd of Worcester and he was banned for only five matches . |
| 9 | It 's a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland and it 's getting all these American stars down there all the time . ’ |
| 10 | The situation is opposed by Conservatives in the north-east of Scotland and he is showing contempt for the people of the whole of Scotland . |
| 11 | On 12 September 1991 there was a hearing of the care proceedings , a supervision order was made in respect of D. and he was returned to the mother . |
| 12 | I have to say that if this room was filled by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland and they were pushing me very hard about divorce , I would have to say very clearly that their fear that civil divorce will make marital breakdown worse , or enhance or facilitate it — my answer would be : No , it will make very little difference . |
| 13 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 14 | and you know , okay , you 're gon na do this show or act three of this show on the twenty third of January and it 's going to , that particularly , what not , yeah , erm |
| 15 | A long half-mile to the east , across a rising plateau , is the summit of Gragareth and it is reached only after a stumbling progress through untamed and unfriendly vegetation . |
| 16 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 17 | Nearly all African bishops are now sons of Africa and they are sending out their own missionaries . |
| 18 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ This was discussed during the hearing at the House of Lords and it was said that if a case was brought the Attorney General would quash it , and that has been confirmed by lawyers . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ This was discussed during the hearing at the House of Lords and it was said that if a case was brought the Attorney-General would quash it and that has been confirmed by lawyers . |
| 21 | That brings us to investment banking and I 'll leave you here since er , James our , James financial director 's the director of Lazzards and he 's gon na go through the Pearson financials . |
| 22 | But the truth is , they 're afraid of Lewis and they 're trying to milk the title for all it 's worth . ’ |
| 23 | But the truth is , they 're afraid of Lewis and they 're trying to milk the title for all it 's worth . ’ |
| 24 | This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled . |
| 25 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 26 | Yeah , I mean now plays of Shakespeare and they 're wearing modern dress like those worn at Richard the Third or something and they 're wearing well either First or Second World War uniforms . |
| 27 | Parliament on May 4 elected Konstantinos Karamanlis as President of Greece and he was sworn in on May 5 for a five-year term . |
| 28 | was he , he was coming over from er South Africa ai n't he , on fourth of April , me mum 's eighty on first of April and he 's coming on fourth . |
| 29 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 30 | He was on the losing side with Everton three times twice against Liverpool and he is determined to get his hands on the trophy this time . |