Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 32 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 33 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 34 | God knows what they would make of Georgina when Victoria passed on an estimate of her age . |
| 35 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 36 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 37 | The original clock and watchmaker business expanded in the late 19th century and a separate clock factory was set up in Robert Street , Middlesbrough to cope with the demand . |
| 38 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 39 | What did Bill Dodds think of the Kittyhawk ? |
| 40 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 41 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 42 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |
| 43 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 44 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 45 | Still muttering the word justice , Yeremi gazed at the quatrefoil viewscreen . |
| 46 | She came in front beside Patrick and Jim crept into the back , where he promptly fell asleep . |
| 47 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 48 | ‘ Previously , a security officer at the Hardshaw Brook depot in St Helens checked with the Met Office , took readings from a thermometer and inspected road surfaces outside the depot . |
| 49 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 50 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 51 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 52 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 53 | What was he doing ? ’ plump-cheeked Sarah asked through a mouthful of the bread roll she was chomping on . |
| 54 | I hope Kelly plays for the RoI . |
| 55 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 56 | In a review of Jean-Richard Bloch 's essay , Naissance d'une culture , Nizan refers to the issue of the " legacy of cultures and the invention of a new culture " as the major problem confronting the contemporary writer , intellectual , artist.38 Nizan signals his agreement with Bloch that bourgeois humanist and individualist culture , optimistic , progressive and outward-looking in its origins , degenerated during the latter part of the nineteenth century into a solitary , self-preoccupied and defensively reactionary activity . |
| 57 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 58 | The two directors of the company David Phillpot and Barry Fitzgerald remain with the business as executive controllers , and they both report to general manager Peter Lloyd . |
| 59 | BASIC INSTINCT is already famous , a ) for the precedent-setting and record-breaking three million bucks writer Joe Eszterhas got for the screenplay , and b ) for the concerted efforts of the American lesbian and gay community to harass the production because of its alleged depiction of lesbianism and bisexual women as homicidal maniacs , and standing outside theatres giving away the surprise ending . |
| 60 | As he bolted down his breakfast Chuck gazed around the clearing with delighted eyes . |