Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him .
2 It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab .
3 CONSOLES STREETFIGHTER 2 ( SNES , £64.99 ) : The celebrated Capcom coin-op makes it on to the SNES with more head-to-head action than Lennox Lewis could handle .
4 PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion .
5 It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level .
6 Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland .
7 Now that you 've decided on our new club name send it off to — .
8 This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour .
9 ‘ Was n't that where some bakery foreman dressed himself up in a turban , said he was an Eastern potentate , and persuaded half a dozen women to move in with him as his harem ?
10 Glenn Hoddle … the tru thoroughbred made something out of nothing …
11 A DARLINGTON landlady has left her pub after crippling rent rises forced her out of business .
12 He had meant to ask his research assistant to sketch something out for him on ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ or some such subject , but the silly girl 's talents did not encompass putting pen to paper .
13 Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final .
14 Stevens 's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final .
15 Waiting at the stop for the horse bus to take her back to Vetch Street , Sally-Anne heard a voice she knew .
16 ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want .
17 The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards .
18 When you buy a sleeping bag test it out in the shop — put it on the floor , get inside and get the feel of it .
19 Cranog Jones claims his ex-wife Margaret wanted him out of the family home .
20 After drying her hair Ruth tied it back from her face with a white velvet ribbon and planned her next move .
21 The main route directions take you back to the starting point , Staveley , though this means the final five miles of the circuit are spent moving away from the real Lake District .
22 In making up , sew down the strip at the lower edge of the cable at the back and thread it up through the cable twist to sew it in at the top .
23 After each call to a PI routine , simply pressing the Return key reverts you back to the main menu from which another PI routine may be called or you may exit by entering 0 .
24 As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ .
25 His eyes now lit by a weak leer of hope , Barometer Barnes closed me out on the pink 35–43 .
26 With a heavy sigh Rory levered herself out of bed , her movements jerky and uncoordinated , completely lacking the unconscious grace she 'd always possessed .
27 He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring .
28 That i that is completely infeasible for all for all sorts of reasons it would be grossly unfair on council tenants to throw them out of their house .
29 ‘ Then I asked a girl friend to fix me up with someone .
30 In São Paulo , he was about to find out , but a complex series of engine mishaps put him out of the race .
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