Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun prp] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Rushden , he also gave a One-Year course in history for Sophie Green and established good , non-threatening working relationships with her . |
| 2 | Then he called for Alvar Fañez and said unto him , Cousin , the poor have no part in the wrong which the King hath done us ; see now that no wrong be done unto them along our road : and he called for his horse . |
| 3 | I plumped for Veuve Clicquot and sat down . |
| 4 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 5 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 6 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 7 | That 's why I wrote to you about Herr Sussmeyer and enclosed the pubic hair , though I did n't realise it at the time . |
| 8 | There is , for instance , a route between Tokyo and Honolulu — known , because it is not fixed in cement , as it were , as the TYO-HNL Flexible Track System — which carries millions upon millions of Japanese to and from honeymoons and shopping expeditions ; there are routes now between Honolulu and San Francisco , between Honolulu and Nadi ( in Fiji , and pronounced Nandi ) , Nadi and Tokyo , and Nadi and Sydney , between Los Angeles and points south-west . |
| 9 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 10 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 11 | The immaculate officer stepped gingerly aboard Sinar Surya and failed to conceal his astonishment at our living conditions . |
| 12 | I was thinking about Conrie Fraser and wondering where she was at that moment . |
| 13 | She forgot about David Fairfax and got on with her afternoon work . |
| 14 | If he called at her house in the morning on the pretext of enquiring after Mr Bradshaw and asked her straight out , in front of her mother , to walk with him to the theatre , she 'd have to accept . |
| 15 | Simon Cormack had been fifteen days in his underground cell , and thirteen since he had answered the question about Aunt Emily and known that his father was trying to get him out . |
| 16 | McQuade was a working-class Protestant , ex-soldier , docker , and professional boxer who sat for North Belfast and continued the independent unionist tradition of men like Henderson and Nixon . |
| 17 | The Netherlands Court of Appeals on July 5 overturned the murder conviction of Gerald Harte and upheld the acquittal of three other Irish people , Sean Hick , Paul Hughes and Donna Maguire . |
| 18 | In March AI representatives travelled to the south east of Sierra Leone and uncovered serious human rights abuses by both government forces and armed rebels . |
| 19 | I know you write under the pseudonym of Ben MacLean and wish to keep your literary activities secret , so I have never seen anything wrong in taking in your mail . ’ |
| 20 | First owned by Anne Duchess of Westminster , Foinavon — named after Scottish mountains in the manner of Ben Stack and Arkle — had won three chases for Tom Dreaper but had a tendency to fall and the Duchess decided to sell him . |
| 21 | Dalziel asked himself , thinking of Marcus Felstead and trying to revise his mental picture of him . |
| 22 | As no doubt the teams are ready to take the field , it only remains for me to extend a warm welcome to the directors , players and boisterous supporters of Scrimley Arsenal and wish you all an enjoyable afternoon . |
| 23 | Travelling by train I landed in the centre of Los Angeles and found a room in a small hotel off Pershing Square . |
| 24 | ‘ He had experience in administering effectively a large public museum ; he has demonstrated skills in fund-raising ; and thirdly , we get the bulk of our annual budget from Congress , and Rusty got the bulk of his budget ( $15 million a year ) from the Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles and showed great skill in dealing with them . |
| 25 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 26 | Pier Carlo Falotti , head of DEC Europe and touted last year by The Wall Street Journal as Ken Olsen 's possible successor , tendered his resignation June 30 , an action The Journal said last week precipitated Olsen 's resignation ten days ago ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 27 | He denounced the immoralities which had prevailed in Northumbrian society since the days of King Aelfwald and contrasted the adornments of dress and hair and the luxurious standard of living of Aethelred 's court-circle with an absence of concern for the poor and the starving . |
| 28 | He slipped away to the great palace of King Darzin and begged to be rewarded for warning him against his enemies . |
| 29 | Hadrian 's Wall , a World Heritage Site , marks the northern frontier of Roman Britain and stretches over 70 miles from the Solway Firth to Wallsend in the east . |
| 30 | Eastwards towards the sunrise , the ice-hung peaks of Mustagh Ata and Kongur over in Sinkiang hunched on the skyline . |