Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 2 | Garry 's shrug spoke volumes , as did the way he turned away from Dana and started to walk across the lawn . |
| 3 | Steve grew up in Seattle and began climbing in the Cascades Range . |
| 4 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 5 | The idea started in Standlake and has spread throughout the country . |
| 6 | no where we went was the erm well where we went first was the Dunkirk , did n't like what we hear in there , so we went from the Dunkirk and tried to get in the erm Smithfield hotel , we were unable to do that |
| 7 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 8 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 9 | Both had come from England to make their homes in unspoilt Orkney and had settled in the South Ronaldsay community . |
| 10 | A nationwide strike by medical workers beginning in April intensified during May and achieved backing from the Federation of Independent Trade Unions . |
| 11 | So in 1869 he came back to England and went to live in a large house in the country . |
| 12 | He assumes it is Miss Havisham and begins to act like a snob . |
| 13 | Macgregor 's unit returned to mapping in northeast Scotland and continued to work in the Central Coalfield . |
| 14 | Horne retired in 1911 , the last serving member of the team which had mapped the south of Scotland and had begun on the Highlands . |
| 15 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 16 | I shall be on maternity leave from the end of December and plan to return to the editor 's chair in the summer . |
| 17 | The deaths are the latest in an epidemic which was first identified in Ireland and has swept through the eastern Mediterranean [ see EDs 49/50 , 51 ] . |
| 18 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 19 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 20 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 21 | The virus is also thought to have started in The Netherlands in March and to have surfaced in the US and UK . |
| 22 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 23 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 24 | Those taking part included President Mitterrand ( who had condemned the " particularly abject " attack at Carpentras and had called on the French people to " pull themselves together " ) , Prime Minister Michel Rocard , and other members of the government and senior politicians excluding the FN . |
| 25 | I felt thrilled to be back in Abyssinia and stared entranced at the arid landscape of the Danakil desert . |
| 26 | It was stolen in November and found burnt to a shell in Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 28 | It all but sunk Pompey and put United on the crest of the wave . |
| 29 | After qualifying Margaret opened her own school of dancing in Hove and continued to teach until the birth of her two children ; music and dance have continued to play a major part throughout her life . |
| 30 | Relations had already become seriously strained following the mid-March execution in Baghdad of the United Kingdom-based journalist Farzad Bazoft and had worsened towards the end of the month when the UK and the United States claimed to have foiled an Iraqi plot to import nuclear detonators [ see p. 37322 ] . |