Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island .
2 The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital .
3 The Myndie Snake would find them and drip venom upon them , poisoning the water and burning them where they hid .
4 Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing .
5 Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place .
6 Ross unlocked the bar and let it swing down .
7 An hour later he was awakened by Sunil , who unlocked the door and ushered him in apologetically .
8 He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all .
9 At the hotel Luke collected both keys from the night porter , and when they reached her room he unlocked the door and held it open for her , then closed it behind him .
10 The Iranian government accused the Saudi authorities of a " criminal conspiracy " to kill the pilgrims and charged it with " incompetence " in the construction of facilities and management of the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina , announcing on July 13 that it was to file charges of murder against the Saudi government in the International Court of Justice at The Hague .
11 The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) .
12 On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night .
13 stings the grass and makes it flowerless ,
14 Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door .
15 ‘ I mean , did n't the last husband say something about ‘ Lose the fat or lose me ’ ?
16 Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ?
17 Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament .
18 Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg .
19 I think today that if someone was designing a house one would incorporate all the modern additions which have suddenly become fashionable such as double porches , doubleglazing and er patio windows , I think that these things are perhaps a development from , in the same way as this house is a development from the rooms and the flats we lived in in London so that the modern conceptions of the things I 've mentioned could be incorporated as normal in the house certainly would be cheaper to incorporate them when building the house than adding them on .
20 er , thinking of spending a lot of money behind the station and building the supermarket and ploughing it all up , that car park , and then putting the information centre in the old , old
21 Animals eat the seeds and convert them to other energies .
22 Now reverse the position by rotating the hands but keeping them touching .
23 They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies .
24 Do you want to borrow the car and return it later ? ’
25 ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club .
26 ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’
27 The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years .
28 When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit .
29 When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit .
30 When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit .
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