Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 2 | But Warren is prepared to meet Hodkinson halfway by paying him a further £25,000 — provided he beats McMillan but he will have to offer the WBO champion the same . |
| 3 | Harold Macmillan , the British premier , maintaining Churchill 's policy of détente , proved willing to visit Moscow early in 1959 . |
| 4 | The Liberal Ramsey thought that Churchill was totally wrong to put Britain back on the gold standard ; that he was illiberal over miners in the General Strike ; that he was very mistaken in resisting the advance of India to independence . |
| 5 | this killed Bristol off for goods … bad defence by them … but smart piece of work from Allen and Dyer … |
| 6 | We would be foolish to leave God out of our reckoning , never taking time to consider deeply why we are so restless with desire . |
| 7 | The fact he had not come into the kitchen meant he felt unwanted , and this brought Faye in with , " And there is no place we can talk in this house now . |
| 8 | But neither Shakespeare 's tragedies nor life itself can be fully understood unless we are prepared to take Iago fully into our consciousness , and make our own attempt to come to terms with what Shakespeare created . |
| 9 | With regard to a single currency and economic and monetary union , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that the Government are not prepared to commit Britain now to a single currency . |
| 10 | In many ways this brings Marshall closer to the regulationist school and indeed he explicitly incorporates aspects of their analysis in his approach . |
| 11 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
| 12 | Discipleship means being prepared to follow Jesus even to the point of death . |
| 13 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 14 | It was n't easy to get Nigel out of the window — and the large oval bed of rose bushes with the most vicious imaginable thorns , immediately underneath the window , did n't help — but eventually he was again steered into the back of the Volvo , and Alan drove off with Dei at his side . |
| 15 | We wanted very much to ask Eliot round before departure , especially as we had now moved to a bigger flat . |
| 16 | It was most unusual to see Taff down like this and as I gave him my condolences I was thinking that the sadness was beginning to reach almost everyone . |
| 17 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 18 | SunSoft 's representative on Posix 's PThreads ( or P1003.4a ) committee ensures that the firm does n't go off and implement anything non-standard that is likely to put SunSoft out on a limb . |
| 19 | My wife and I were lucky to have Eric all to ourselves . |
| 20 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 21 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 22 | Gabrielle Fisher , 21 , had been due to leave Southport yesterday at the end of an 18-day visit to England . |
| 23 | The obvious fact that Event was not working , his instincts to protect his investment , but also the awakening of his latent enthusiasm for the business of running a magazine , all drew Branson deeper into the quicksand which Event became . |
| 24 | Many will remember a street interview , I think by Scottish TV , in which an ordinary guy from Glasgow upbraided an old woman who was happy to see Thatcher back at Number 10 , with the all-too appropriate retort : ‘ Are you off your fucking head , Mrs ? ’ |
| 25 | Hitachi Ltd has OSF/1 out in Japan , but its role in computers is now starting to appear strained . |
| 26 | Her persistent phone calls and the risk of public disclosure unsettled Jack Kennedy and he was happy to pass Marilyn over to brother Bobby , who apparently consummated their relationship parked in a car outside the same brother-in-law 's beach house in Santa Monica . |
| 27 | Yet although this turned out to be the case and Edna 's and Bert 's spells at Four Winds gave Harriet increasing support , she was still unable to rouse Liza out of her permanent lethargy or to get her further than the garden gate . |
| 28 | It was clear that in spite of the NSDAP 's grip on the local population and the conciliatory attitudes of British and French politicians , he would be unable to bargain Danzig back into the Reich . |
| 29 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 30 | Surely she knew that it was fatal to let Ross anywhere near her ? |