Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 2 | Said to Bert that got to be a right dopey dick to ride a bike with no mudguards on . |
| 3 | At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects . |
| 4 | Henderson did get a little help from his friends , in particular a massive 484ft third-inning home run from Jose Canseco on Saturday that came within 13 rows of hitting the roof of the SkyDome but dropped instead into the hands of a surprised Toronto fan . |
| 5 | CYPRIOT club Apollon , Liverpool 's hosts in this week 's second leg Cup Winners Cup-tie , were involved in a riot on Saturday that led to a referee 's strike and postponement of yesterday 's Cyprus League games . |
| 6 | I think about the last ones that was taken there was an old man Ramsey that died at er Dalvaine , and they carried him out that way . |
| 7 | For instance in nineteen eighty eight more men died from breast cancer in the United States than died from AIDS . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1890 Tiller was asked to present a quartet of children at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool , in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe , subtitled The Good Friday That Came On A Saturday . |
| 9 | It was Cantona 's exclusion by Leeds against Arsenal that led to his shock transfer last week . |
| 10 | Oddly enough , it was the United States that acted as an important intermediary in these arguments . |
| 11 | In 1982 it was Mexico that kicked off the international ‘ debt crisis ’ by refusing to meet its interest payments . |
| 12 | Only a save by Collins from a Stewart McLean header , and a rebound by Gary McVie that bounced off defender Jeff Calvin , foiled Coleraine . |
| 13 | THE BBC last night axed Eldorado , the supersoap set on the sunny Costa del Sol that turned into a multi-million pound flop . |
| 14 | THE BBC last night axed Eldorado , the supersoap set on the sunny Costa del Sol that turned into a multi-million pound flop . |
| 15 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 16 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
| 17 | The masher turned his attention from the girl to Neil and moved towards him menacingly . |
| 18 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 19 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 20 | McGuinness is more hard-line than Adams and reckoned to be in closer touch with the mood of die-hard republicans . |
| 21 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 22 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 23 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 24 | The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness . |
| 25 | Benstede leaned across the table to talk further but , aware of the growing interest of neighbours , stared knowingly at Corbett and lapsed into silence . |
| 26 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 27 | They moved to Sherburn-in-Elmet and set to their new task . |
| 28 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 29 | For instance , take Blind Willie Johnson ( one of Cooder 's big early blues influences ) ; he was from Texas and lived near Dallas , so there 's a good chance the Hawaiians would have visited the area . |
| 30 | He travelled under his new name to Afghanistan and embarked on a decade of pioneering travel and antiquarian investigation . |