Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Colin flies back to England later this week to try to sort out the storm over the Pakistanis . |
| 2 | The answers have still to be provided , but six months on Mota and her coach/boyfriend Joś Pedrosa sit happily in their holiday home just outside Oporto and chuckle at the thought that her racing career is in crisis . |
| 3 | Devlin got up and they walked out to the terrace . |
| 4 | Father Devlin got in alongside him . |
| 5 | As Schellenberg and Devlin got out , a sergeant emerged from the hut with the radio mast , and hurried towards them . |
| 6 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 7 | She could hear parts of the conversation between the two lost souls , and when Tess went back upstairs , Mrs Brooks crept quietly up to listen outside the bedroom door . |
| 8 | I have sent for Stirling to report here on his return when I shall make the new procedures clear to him . |
| 9 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 10 | They were also trying too hard , Maria realised quite soon , and she thought Luke was equally aware of it . |
| 11 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 12 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 13 | SENSIQ MADE PURELY FOR YOU |
| 14 | And when the film 's director , Alfred Hitchcock , threw a party at his house , Clift became so drunk that his co-star Karl Malden carried him out in his arms . |
| 15 | There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail . |
| 16 | Lisa beamed confidently as Vass gathered up her sketches and handed them back to her . |
| 17 | This time , he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home . |
| 18 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 19 | For these commentators Wilde represents both a cultural ‘ decay ’ and a resurrection of ‘ pagan viciousness ’ and ‘ primal errors ’ ( pp. 98 , 134 ) . |
| 20 | ( When this portrait is removed , apparently , which it was once , early in this century , the ghost of Webb gallops noisily up and down the stairs . ) |
| 21 | Wolsey got up . |
| 22 | They were bound for Epping because Dean lived there . |
| 23 | When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been . |
| 24 | Every Masai thinks constantly about cattle . |
| 25 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 26 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 27 | Trent sprinted up the dock and spotted the President 's granddaughter . |
| 28 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 29 | On the IGC , Whitehall insists more preparatory work is needed . |
| 30 | Incensed , Maria flung up her head , choking on rage , and but for her fear of any physical contact between them , she might have lashed out at him . |