Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 2 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 3 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 4 | The pupils have heard about the Jospice — a clinic in Marazan , Honduras , where local nurse Rachel Birch , from St Edward 's parish , works , helping to care for sick and injured people . |
| 5 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 6 | Have you heard about The Chokey ? ’ |
| 7 | So we were gon na go to The Two Mills but I 've heard about the Miller 's Kitchen so I thought , we 'll try it . |
| 8 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 9 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 10 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 11 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | A critical relationship had already developed between the PLO and the Palestinians of the territories . |
| 13 | One witness had disappeared , two more had been intimidated ; doubts were aroused about the ANC 's commitment to the rule of law . |
| 14 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 15 | On about 89 mins Deane put the ball in the net , but the goal was disallowed for a Wallace push on a defender . |
| 16 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 17 | He had already killed dozens of men on duty ; he slipped ashore during a skirmish at Haifa , disguised as a Coldstream private , and shot several more . |
| 18 | So Uzbek gas supplies to Kirgiz parts of the Fergana valley , tucked between the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains , were halted , leaving Osh , Kirgizstan 's second-largest town , short of fuel . |
| 19 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 20 | The winner will feature on the Miss Pears soap cartons for the following year and have her picture painted for the Pears portrait gallery , as well as picking up a cheque for £1000 . |
| 21 | Until recently , her remit was to train staff about HIV/AIDS , and she informs children referred about the HIV test . |
| 22 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 23 | This is as true of nineteenth-century Whitley Bay ( which literally ceased to be farmland ) as it is of almost all of Longbenton , developed as a Newcastle over spill after 1945 . |
| 24 | Land adjacent to the site would be developed as the Lancashire Enterprises Business and Technology Park . |
| 25 | Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 . |
| 26 | Once the foreign lawyer is registered as an RFL , he or she may enter into partnership with an English solicitor . |
| 27 | In 1864 it was registered as the Consett Iron Co . |
| 28 | Odd as this may sound , the idea that an association might be formed between a CS and the absence of some event is not without precedent in associative theorizing . |
| 29 | On 28 May as part of their Spanish sale ( see p. 17 ) Christie 's will be offering further pieces from the Maravillas Treasure ( some of which was sold in 1990 ) comprising some outstanding items of Spanish jewellery together with gold coins and bars recovered from the wreck of the seventeenth-century Spanish galleon the ‘ Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas ’ , wrecked off the Bahamas in 1656 . |
| 30 | Underwater successes include the fabulous treasures from the Atocha , a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys . |