Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might expect Ashley Newton to agree with Clarke . |
| 2 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 3 | Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on . |
| 4 | Fat chance of that , or of persuading Jessica to go with her to Aunt Jane 's in Port Erin . |
| 5 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 6 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 7 | Send your legal questions to Roger Peters at Hospitality , . |
| 8 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 9 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 10 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 11 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 12 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 13 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 14 | In their church growth analysis , Currie , Gilbert and Horsley distinguish between autogenous and allogenous growth ( Currie , Gilbert and Horsley 1977:80 ) . |
| 15 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 16 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 17 | Tarn Howe glowed beneath an unsuitably blue sky . |
| 18 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 20 | The Labour Party ‘ power hoggers ’ David Marquand refers to will strongly resist this approach , as being marginal to the real issues . |
| 21 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 22 | Mark Kozelek thinks about finding someone else to sing his songs , so he can hide all the time . |
| 23 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 24 | No doubt Antimenides fought in Palestine for the Babylonians , but his brother Alcaeus was not interested in specifying against whom he fought . |
| 25 | Then he coughed a little as if he had embarrassed himself and went on , returning to his normal , slightly facetious manner , ‘ Though not one Mrs Hobbs cared for , I 'm afraid . |
| 26 | Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries . |
| 27 | Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words . |
| 28 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 29 | Similarly , the increasing use of urban development corporations ind Whitehall grants in inner cities would further undermine local authorities . |
| 30 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |