Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After rescuing McAllister just over a fortnight ago , he had told himself firmly , This must stop ! and himself had refused to listen . |
| 2 | The unchallenged winner of the wooden spoon after putting England in on Thursday , he bounced back yesterday with an innings of magnificent irresponsibility . |
| 3 | Now Parlour will get the chance to stake his claim after putting Arsenal back on the rails after their bad start to the season by making both goals in the 2-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday . |
| 4 | personally — after watching Deane again vs scum and considering that our top scorer is injured — i think Frank should be given a place on the bench — at least as a ‘ threat ’ to Deano … |
| 5 | After settling Harry down with a cup of tea , she led Joe into her office and sat him down . |
| 6 | After leaving Argentina illegally in 1940 , he flew Spitfires and Hurricanes for us during the war . |
| 7 | Scudamore resolved the first of his Cheltenham dilemmas after working Granville Again on Pipe 's gallops this morning . |
| 8 | ‘ We have often smiled , ’ he wrote , ‘ at the earnestness with which he advocated his project for girdling London round with one long drain-like tunnel … ’ |
| 9 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a very good reason for wanting Dana close to me . |
| 11 | Marco made an elaborate performance of helping Tabitha out of the net . |
| 12 | If she were really honest , she did n't want to run the risk of seeing Niall again for a while , not socially at any rate . |
| 13 | It kind of builds Gandhi up into a great er figure , as it were , ignoring his feet of clay , erm , which he definitely had . |
| 14 | Hence the importance of anchoring Germany securely within Western Europe by speeding up European integration . |
| 15 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 16 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |
| 17 | I must of told Jo instead of you I think |
| 18 | Rossythe is no different we stand to lose eighteen thousand plus training facilities for the whole of Scotland but we 've just been told of recent that a new nuclear waste dump is to be built at Rossythe could you tell us if this is a forerunner for the subject of closing Rossythe down with a loss of all these jobs ? |
| 19 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 20 | Greek police are now treating the case as kidnapping , instead of viewing Ben merely as a missing person . |
| 21 | She hung her head , weighed down by the enormity of it all , swamped by the prospect of having Adam constantly at her side . |
| 22 | Maxim grinned suddenly at the idea of dragging George openly into this . |
| 23 | At Dentdale 's eastern end , Dent Head and the viaduct lead into the dale , the road winding on to Lea Yeat and Cowgill where the narrow winding Coal Road climbs by Monkeybeck Grains and below Shaking Moss over into Garsdale , its highest points often being blocked by snow in the winter months . |
| 24 | Beyond the immediate punishment of casting Adam out from the garden of Eden or Cain from human society , beyond the destruction of the flood and the scattering of the nations , there was always God 's ultimate intention for man 's well-being and blessing . |
| 25 | as he half knew , he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble , and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment : a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years . |
| 26 | It seemed unlikely — perhaps he 'd even be grateful to Marianne , for getting Shae out of his life . |
| 27 | He was all for sending Gladstone over to the ‘ bloody ’ Russians . ’ |
| 28 | Multi-millionaire Silver , who ploughed part of his self-made fortune into hauling Leeds back to the pinnacle of the English game , is convinced manager Howard Wilkinson can spark another revival . |
| 29 | Inevitably , Mary had a vested interest in the smooth running of her department and in helping Doug out of his difficulties as a new teacher in Humanities . |
| 30 | It was the water authority of Bradford that was largely instrumental in keeping Washburndale out of the National Parks . |