Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the registration forms came through , she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away . |
| 2 | The unintended consequences of the diminished role of the MCC were to erode the very functions of Field Chairs which made the post worthwhile , to make them less informed by removing opportunity for MCC debate and replacing it with reports of MMRC , debates , and to reduce the contribution that fields could make to Modular Course development . |
| 3 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 4 | He said he had given her mother one of his running tops as a present for Miss Bonham-Carter but demanded it back after he and the actress had a ‘ blazing row ’ . |
| 5 | Probably the best way to find it is to extend a line from Iota Carinæ , in the False Cross , through Beta Carinæ and prolong it for some distance . |
| 6 | Liquid crystals — these are able to store ingredients such as vitamin E and release them slowly into the skin for prolonged benefits . |
| 7 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 9 | He is hoping to go back to Poland for postgraduate studies and recommends it as a holiday destination . |
| 10 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 11 | If he called at her house in the morning on the pretext of enquiring after Mr Bradshaw and asked her straight out , in front of her mother , to walk with him to the theatre , she 'd have to accept . |
| 12 | He was after outline planning and thought he was going to get it . |
| 13 | WHAT IS it about Frank Oz that leads him constantly to make so-so films with fabulous trailers ? |
| 14 | As no doubt the teams are ready to take the field , it only remains for me to extend a warm welcome to the directors , players and boisterous supporters of Scrimley Arsenal and wish you all an enjoyable afternoon . |
| 15 | If you could just pick up a load of scrap iron and shove it on the bill under metalwork you would n't be turning up your nose at the subject . |
| 16 | If the librarian can broaden his focus of user education and let it become information user education and not simply library user education , then there is the possibility for significant change . |
| 17 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 18 | Of course , there may be considerations arising from the recruitment area which have a bearing on how computerization should be tackled in the other areas , but there is no doubt that a consistent overall strategy can be developed which incorporates all the major aspects of personnel administration and integrates them one with another . |
| 19 | There were four such systems : Acorn , Pin , Mosaic and Superprofiles , all of which took a number of census variables and turned them into groups . |
| 20 | In thermocouple and hot-wire meters the current to be measured passes through a straight piece of resistance wire and heats it up . |
| 21 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
| 22 | We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony . |
| 23 | Based on the Marvel comic of the same name and filmed back in 1988 , it 's the usual uncomplicated but enjoyable mix of demolition derby and fuck you one-liners , which features Dolph as a leather-clad psycho-avenger tearing up nightclubs with huge guns , using his karate skills on mob bosses and riding round city sewers on his Harley . |
| 24 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 25 | One of the things that does strike me about er particularly heterosexual men and their attitudes to homosexual and y'know homo erotic activities , there 's y'know a lot of different aspects where y'know I do n't know rugby players all get in the shower together and smack each-other on the backside in the name of horse play and y'know it 's not considered threatening or erm or outrageous and yet sometimes these are the very people who are the most homophobic . |
| 26 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 27 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 28 | Surely it was a lie that the boy had looked through a window of Primrose Cottage and seen it ? |
| 29 | At the end of the play , he takes a box full of sleeping pills and washes them down with wine — both pills and wine have been affectionately supplied by Trish . |
| 30 | Angola 's vast mineral resources consisted not only of diamonds but also of oil , which was the backbone of the economy , providing 90 per cent of export earnings and making it , after Nigeria , the second largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa . |