Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 2 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 3 | Wigan and Huddersfield should be officially crowned champions of the First and Third divisions respectively , with Leigh and Sheffield effectively clinching promotion to the First . |
| 4 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 5 | Unaware that she was holding her breath , Isabel slowly slid her arms around his waist . |
| 6 | But now , here was Beryl vigorously maintaining that her father had ‘ worked it all out — planned it move by move ’ . |
| 7 | Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe . |
| 8 | Newman slowly put down the receiver . |
| 9 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 10 | At the Jennifer Flay gallery , Ann Veronica Janssens discreetly applies elementary geometrical principles to glass panels , mirrors and metal fittings in order to modify our perception of our surroundings . |
| 11 | DEC DULY LAUNCHES ITS ALPHA PC FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 12 | DEC DULY LAUNCHES ITS ALPHA PC … |
| 13 | So Dymo effectively uses FDC as a data collection device , collecting the data locally , validating it , and putting it in an electronic format for automatic transfer to the head office for consolidation . |
| 14 | Although he has found a new cutting edge to his game , after managing just five goals in his previous 104 league games , it is as a creator that Alex Ferguson most cherishes him . |
| 15 | Rosalind gladly let the police-sergeant take away the envelope and hurried off , singing , to telephone to Richard . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 17 | Special Constable Glenn Goodman was shot dead and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded . |
| 18 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 19 | Dan Rather asked if Hussein would withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 20 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 21 | Then it turns out that Patrick rather likes it after all . |
| 22 | What Stirling instinctively realized was that the German and Italian air forces posed a very real threat to an advance by the Eighth Army and that if those enemy aircraft could be neutralized on the ground , the offensive would stand a much greater chance of success . |
| 23 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 24 | They flew across the UK , down the Irish Sea to Gibraltar , back through France and Germany eventually arriving back at Coningsby in time of an early breakfast . |
| 25 | The 18-year-old had hit a magnificent 25-yard volley to equalise in the April 1 game , which Middlesbrough eventually lost 2–1 . |
| 26 | When an exasperated Bassett eventually did tell them to shut up , two of them immediately demanded police action because THEY had been offended and an investigation ensued . |
| 27 | Group sales director Roger Little presented production directors ( Alexandra ) and ( Imperial ) with specially-inscribed Black Basalt items at the presentation ceremony . |
| 28 | In an age of central heating and renovation Greystones presumably featured as a rare unspoiled habitat . |
| 29 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 30 | MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson staunchly backed his temperamental superstar Eric Cantona last night and claimed : ‘ This man can become a giant at Old Trafford . ’ |