Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda brings along her box of tricks to every session — it holds a tool for most jobs , from opening oysters to piping cream . |
| 2 | After his talks with Mr Baker , Chancellor Kohl toned down his enthusiasm for moves toward German unity . |
| 3 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 4 | Nor is the waiting made any easier when , at 11.00 p.m. two carp roll over my swim within minutes of each other . |
| 5 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 6 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 7 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 8 | Plaster tumbled off his body in clouds of dust . |
| 9 | He falls off his chair in paroxysms of laughter , pointing to the gallery of gold discs that adorn his office wall . |
| 10 | Miss Harker was n't just baffled , she was incensed that this chit of a girl should dare to make a fool of her in front of the whole class , but she managed to smother up her rage in tones of exasperated concern . |
| 11 | ASLIMMER Press Council should speed up its handling of complaints against newspapers and act firmly against unacceptable intrusions of privacy , according to a review conducted by its chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper QC . |
| 12 | The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers . |
| 13 | But local people this week vowed to step up their campaign after details of the area of land the developers are seeking to have re-zoned were made public . |
| 14 | The Tunisian League of Human Rights ( LTDH ) , which had been founded in 1977 , ceased operation in mid-June , having failed to comply with a new law which required that all such associations should open up their membership to members of all political parties and which also banned office-holders in political parties from belonging to such private associations . |
| 15 | As well as sending the hotel an updated booking position each month , Saga sent a final rooming list four weeks before your departure , confirming the names of clients taking up their allocation of rooms at the hotel . |
| 16 | They met in Sion College , and , following some lengthy discussions drew up their list of proposals for church government and church discipline . |
| 17 | They gave up their protest after negotiations with the authorities , however . |
| 18 | Then the conifers would have long since given up their job as nurses to the beeches and ended in a timber yard . |
| 19 | The minister disagreed with Lord Carlisle 's recommendation that the Home Secretary should give up his veto over decisions by the Parole Board in cases involving ‘ the worst kind of offenders ’ . |
| 20 | But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — . |
| 21 | Michael picked up his pack of Strands from the desk and lit one . |
| 22 | In drawing up his list of inhabitants of Corfe Castle in 1794 , the compiler justified his efforts by claiming that it would not only help the overseers keep in touch with actual and potential needs , but would " enable the magistrates to form an opinion on the propriety of applications for parochial relief on the one hand , and of the refusal of it by the parish officers on the other " . |
| 23 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 24 | I have sent for you this morning , Jones , because I find on looking up your record of attendances at police court that you have had neither a charge nor a summons during the last three years . |
| 25 | Some information on other characteristics of the population such as household structure , employment status , ethnic composition and housing situation can be gleaned from the annual General Household and Labour Force surveys , but the problem of small sample size virtually rules out their use at scales below the Standard Region . |
| 26 | And Hathaway , ‘ a small company of dedicated craftsmen in the little town of Waterville , Maine , ’ said their advertisements , ‘ who have been at it , man and boy , for 114 years ’ , sold out their stock of shirts within a week of the first eyepatch appearing in The New Yorker . |
| 27 | She should have been trying out her identity on friends around her own age , not in front of the world 's media . |
| 28 | Dad Michael had lit the Mines of Serpents firework which spluttered before sending out its shower towards onlookers across the street . |
| 29 | Japan 's banks are cutting back their business after years of reckless lending . |
| 30 | Dr Warton did not scruple , on occasion , to visit a dying woman taking his own young children with him ; he describes how , despite the dirt on the floor , they knelt around her bed in attitudes of prayer . |