Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 3 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 4 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 5 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 6 | Waterstones ' financial director Ian Newman kicked off by outlining the importance of having a business plan : ‘ If you have got a plan , then you are controlling your business against something clearly set out and written down . ’ |
| 7 | All nine members of the crew were killed when their RAF Hercules went down during a treacherous low level flying mission through the Grampians 19 days ago . |
| 8 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 9 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 10 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 11 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 12 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 13 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 14 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 15 | In the midst of the continuing public disorder which had accompanied demands for his resignation in recent weeks , President Gnassingbe Eyadema stood down on May 14 from the post of Defence Minister which he had held since seizing power in 1967 . |
| 16 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 17 | Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling . |
| 18 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 19 | In six letters from Swindon Edward poured out to her his hopes , his feelings , and his frustrations , and sent poems addressed to her . |
| 20 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 21 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 22 | Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters . |
| 23 | Then Gary Gregory leaned over to a pal viewing the programme with him and said : ‘ Can you keep a secret ? |
| 24 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 25 | After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants |
| 26 | A study by Tahira Hira carried out on 400 CAB debt cases in Scotland between 1984 and 1987 points to interesting trends . |
| 27 | You remember when David Copperfield turned up on his Aunt Betsy Trotwood 's doorstep ragged and starved and she asked Mr Dick what to do ? |
| 28 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 29 | Ellen Hardcastle turned out to be a fourteen-year-old wisp of a girl with mousy hair and pale blue eyes . |
| 30 | ‘ In the stunned silence that followed , Miss Honey walked up to the front of the class and stood behind her table . |