Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were strolling up towards Elterwater — ‘ it is an addiction , Mr Crump , worse than tobacco , worse even than alcohol — perhaps the government should do something about it , perhaps my friend Mr Pitt should put a tax on nature as his father put a tax on gin . ’ |
| 2 | I thank everyone for their co-operation , especially my husband Eric Smith who was consistently supportive . |
| 3 | I did n't know where to look , and that bisum just sat there cool as a cucumber wolfing down my Celebration Chile Con Carne Surprise . |
| 4 | So my mate Gabby Lawrence thought , ‘ Well , great . ’ |
| 5 | In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to . |
| 6 | That was not my understanding Professor Lock . |
| 7 | Neither Mr Brown nor Ms Reno , and certainly not their boss Mr Clinton , has so far supported legalisation . |
| 8 | His name is Manx but this is successful restaurateur Alfred Manx , not his playwright brother Michael Manx . |
| 9 | Thus our candidate Bill Craig received 8,538 first-preference votes , leaving him only 369 short of the quota . |
| 10 | Already our friend Mr Cehovin , the Secretary of the Municipality , had been transferred to Padua , leaving his wife and family to carry on running the gostilna . |
| 11 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 12 | Yesterday her boyfriend Philip Earl said : ‘ There was only one socket for the whole flat . |
| 13 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG will show off its Unix SVR4-based DCE reference port this week at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge ‘ 93 meet in Boston . |
| 14 | Yesterday his agent Rory Wilson said the tea lady ban was his idea — but the duke knew of it . |
| 15 | Senior ACPO members , notably its president Charles McLachlan , the Chief Constable of the Nottinghamshire Constabulary , also prioritised the right to work over the right to picket . |
| 16 | He denied suggestions that Hewlett-Packard might give up its Precision Architecture RISC architecture for the IBM-Apple Computer Inc-Motorola Inc PowerPC , but said the two firms are ‘ technically close ’ , and that Hewlett-Packard is ‘ flexible ’ . |
| 17 | Tim Godwin now faces bringing up their baby daughter Sophie without the woman he has shared the last 11 years . |
| 18 | If he is remembered for anything it is probably his opera Mona Lisa first performed in Stuttgart in 1915 , thereafter enjoying some modest success . |
| 19 | And all the time there was a powerful Catholic minority which included the greatest English composer of the age , William Byrd ( 1543–1623 ) , and possibly also his pupil Thomas Morley ( 1557–1602 ) though the latter 's politico-religious activities were mysterious and ambiguous . |
| 20 | One forced him to stand up his fiancée Mary Todd at their first planned wedding in 1841 . |
| 21 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 22 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
| 23 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 24 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 25 | Claudio Monteverdi ( 1567–1643 ) was already famous as a madrigalist and composer of the operas Orfeo and Arianna but when he brought out his Sanctissimae Virgini Missa senis vocibus … ac Vesperae ( Venice , 1610 ) he had published no church music since the juvenile Cantiunculae Sacrae of the ‘ pupil of the eminent Ingegneri ’ in 1582 . |
| 26 | An inquest held at Southport Coroner 's Court yesterday heard how on the night before his death Mr Ryder had played cards at his home in Green Lane , Formby , as he had done every Saturday night for the past 30 years . |
| 27 | And now his live-in lover Janette Simon has warned him : ‘ It 's me or the ghost . ’ |
| 28 | Throw out your Brie de Meaux and come out with your hands up ! ’ |
| 29 | Even my coach Robert Ellis ( who yesterday ran the London marathon ) has not been able to find anything out , ’ said Hopper , a Durham restaurant manager . |
| 30 | A month ago its chairman Paul Torday , a former Northern CBI chairman , disclosed that the cost of its defence amounted to £653,000 . |