Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sulky cook with an open sore on one wrist served Corbett and Ranulf pots of milk laced with nutmeg , two rather stale chicken pies and a dish of over-cooked vegetables . |
| 2 | Co-ordinated by director Dennis Hopper , scored by ex-Phil Spector arranger Jack Nitzsche and featuring performances by John Lee Hooker , Miles Davis and Taj Mahal |
| 3 | The problem could not be ignored , for Britain was strengthening her hold on northern India , pushing into Afghanistan and despatching agents into the khanates from the south . |
| 4 | Strawberries are grown near Wisbech and tulip bulbs near Spalding . |
| 5 | The cyclone in late April had formed in the Bay of Bengal and brought winds of up to 145 mph . |
| 6 | Bring pot-grown chrysanthemums into the greenhouse by mid-September and spray plants with a good combined fungicide and insecticide . |
| 7 | Hezb-i-Islami had previously had the backing of Pakistan and had bases inside that country , but on Aug. 13 , in an unprecedented statement , Pakistan 's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had obliquely attacked Hekmatyar , stating that " Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used by unscrupulous elements engaged in undermining the territorial integrity of Afghanistan " . |
| 8 | The UN special rapporteur on human rights , Tadeusz Mazowiecki [ for whose August appointment and report see p. 39035 ] , told the Security Council on Nov. 16 that immediate action was necessary to close detention camps , set up security zones for humanitarian purposes in Bosnia-Hercegovina and establish corridors for humanitarian supplies . |
| 9 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 10 | Information not seen in aerial photographs of jungle fringes was fed back to Australia and enabled the United States and RAAF planes from the Northern Territory of Australia to bomb with a greater chance of finding targets . |
| 11 | But it was a very distinctive and pervasive tone : the Hollywood casting couch was for starlets in the States and stud boys in London . |
| 12 | Money sent home has become an important source of income for the country — especially from those who live in the United States and send remittances to their families in dollars . |
| 13 | The king 's need has been calculated by M. Prestwich : between 1294 and 1297 , to fight in Gascony and Flanders and to pay bribes to such allies as the king of Germany and archbishop of Cologne , some £615,000 was required . |
| 14 | The original sample covered 297 trainees for 96 employers in the Dundee and Renfrew Districts of Scotland and the re-interview survey covers 88 of these employers who now engage 222 trainees . |
| 15 | The Nez Perce feuded with the Spokan and the Skitswish , but their most bitter enemies were the Shoshoni , Bannock and Paiute tribes of the Great Basin region to the south . |
| 16 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 17 | The best Centaur , I think , is the Bible Centaur that we 've got , which okay it 's Bruce Rogers — it 's eighteen D on twenty-two , I think — it 's Bruce Rogers , but it 's also the monotype drawing office taking Centaur and doing things to it to make it work as a composition face at that size , beefing it up just enough so it actually holds , and that 's what his Bible 's in . |
| 18 | If GA pilots want to get more out of AIS , what they need to do is familiarise themselves with Skymaster and ask AIS for what they want . |
| 19 | The sample of courses chosen by Molloy and Carroll was designed to include a relatively high proportion of NSE students and it provides very useful material about the relative performance of SE and NSE students on these courses . |
| 20 | They called for Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait and to pay reparations for damage done , while declaring that the Palestinian question was the " first issue for the Arab world " and incorporating in an eight-point " Doha declaration " a clear expression of " complete support " and " absolute help " for the " historic uprising of the Palestinian people " . |
| 21 | We have taken on UN commitments to Kuwait and initiated efforts on behalf of the Kurds . |
| 22 | Howell has come to the fore this season , being instrumental in getting Civil Service into third place in the league behind Kelburne and Torbrex Wanderers with his impressive defensive record . |
| 23 | Afterwards Mr Harris , accompanied by the loco superintendent , Mr Sinclair , Mr J Lewis , and several employees proceeded on the lorry to Eaton and undertook operations for the resumption of the train services . |
| 24 | On May 13 , 1990 , some 1,000 Palestinians , who were escorting the body of a guerrilla who had died in police custody , ransacked a police post near Jordan 's northern border with Syria and attacked members of the Jordanian secret police , the Mukhabarat . |
| 25 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 26 | Later , as Paul prays for the disciples at Ephesus and lays hands on them , they have a similar experience to the household of Cornelius , namely they speak in tongues and prophesy . |
| 27 | In the 1950s Khrushchev 's attempt to do so by de-throning Stalin and mending fences with Tito torpedoed two client regimes , Bierut 's in Poland and Rákosi 's in Hungary , whose authority derived as much from venerating the first as from anathematising the second.is |
| 28 | In 1879 he returned to England and began studies at Manchester New College in London . |
| 29 | He had attended courses in England and arranged visits by senior Metropolitan officers to the Hoover Building to form those one-on-one relationships that in a crisis can cut through miles of red tape . |
| 30 | Both bad succeeded to a battered inheritance and both had chosen an expansionist policy in order to quell unrest in England and provide lands for their numerous offspring . |