Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 2 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 3 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 4 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 5 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 6 | Rohmer brought out an ID card and showed it to Cardiff . |
| 7 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 8 | He fetched a blanket from the bedroom and wrapped it round Doyle 's body , trying not to touch the wounds . |
| 9 | Eastwood played a Secret Service agent , Frank Horrigan , who froze when the first shot was fired that day in Texas and blamed himself for JFK 's death . |
| 10 | As part of the formal assessment , which is complex and thorough , all workstation users are asked to complete the attached Self-Assessment Check-list and return it to C Will by 31 December . |
| 11 | His young boss was catching the little animals and handing them to Rory who held them upside down , gripped between his thighs with their legs apart , and as I quickly incised the scrotums and drew out the testicles my blade almost touched the rough material of his trouser crutch . |
| 12 | I outlined an elderly atrocious spinster and established her in Lamb House . |
| 13 | She would come to the vicarage and borrow something of Sophia 's . |
| 14 | I took a Polaroid photograph and sent it to Colin Willock , our producer — but when I phoned him later , he said , ‘ How long did it take you to set that one up ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | She would fasten the ring about her neck and wear it for Johnny , as he had asked her to do . |
| 16 | As a final gesture , Tamino removes the hard-won Symbol of the Sun from his own neck and places it round Pamina 's : ‘ It 's a breakthrough — a new order breaking the mould of the past . ’ |
| 17 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 18 | When he reported this encounter to Control , Donleavy hit the roof and summoned him to Frankfurt . |
| 19 | Mrs Bannerji brought two new cups of tea and placed them beside Pakeezah Begum 's big , black bakelite telephone . |
| 20 | Besides , you could go on a really severe diet and wear blonde wigs and blame it on Birdland . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't bleedin' play that thing , ’ a prancing Tan shouted , grabbing the instrument and throwing it onto Owen 's prostrate body . |
| 22 | Marseille took the lead in the 31st minute through top scorer Boksic and increased it through Voeller in the 57th minute following an error by substitute Steven Pressley . |
| 23 | For a start when she was talking about fish and chips she said well we 'll pop along in the car and get them from Moor Road cos they have nice er chips there but then , being as Tony had had a drink he would n't drive so |
| 24 | Monsieur Truffer came in our car and directed us through Cherbourg and up to Bourbourg , which is on a hillside rising behind the east side of the Harbour . |
| 25 | An Italian naval vessel intercepted the boat and escorted it to Brindisi . |
| 26 | People sometimes look at my pictures and compare them to Emerson 's . |
| 27 | It was hardly surprising , in these circumstances , that Nicholas abandoned a hair-brained scheme for launching a direct attack on Constantinople and replaced it with Paskevich 's proposals for a Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities , an Austrian occupation of Serbia and Herzegovina , a blockade of the Bosphorus , and an eventual Austro-Russian partition of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 28 | The rapist got into the same carriage and followed her from Hillingdon station , Middx . |
| 29 | It 's been there er , for sale for a few months and sold it by February at a |
| 30 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |