Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They commissioned William White to build the church in 1871 , built a school and new cottages , pulled down the old manor and the cottages surrounding it and erected a large Victorian house . |
| 2 | The RNLI commissioned William Osborne to complete FAB 3 as a first-of- series . |
| 3 | This remarkable fact led Roger Penrose to propose the cosmic censorship hypothesis , which might be paraphrased as " God abhors a naked singularity . " |
| 4 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 5 | In particular , Jamie Newall 's Aurelius would make Tod Slaughter seem a model of subtle understatement : his declamatory performance in Act I is barely distinguishable from the deliberate badness later on . |
| 6 | Then , by pure chance — but seeing it as an act of providence — she had heard Lin Foh call down for an early supper , for him and his CI5 guardian . |
| 7 | Hari turned to see Ben Jones smiling down at her , his cap in his hand . |
| 8 | The principal problem area concerns the additional amount of computation that may be necessary successfully to implement Monte Carlo based techniques . |
| 9 | Sudanese radio reported on June 25 that the interim administration in Ethiopia had given SPLA forces based there a deadline ( unspecified ) before which they had either to disarm or to leave Ethiopian territory . |
| 10 | In Issue 14 ( 1992 ) of the Winfrith Journal , Diane Halliwell from Finance asked Winfrith staff to donate food for her trip to Romania to distribute much needed aid and supplies . |
| 11 | It was instinct — the natural reaction of a predatory male — that made Ibn Fayoud smile back and press down the automatic window beside him . |
| 12 | ‘ We shall make Colonel Sharpe enjoy dancing ! |
| 13 | The City players collected almost £1,000 to enable Lisa Johnson to join Lake in Los Angeles where he is recovering from a transplant operation on his knee . |
| 14 | Belfast-based triathlete Alastair Duffield , his trainer Ron McKnight and sponsor CP Granleese admire Alastair 's new £2,500 bike . |
| 15 | Kharin flew into London again yesterday after helping CSKA Moscow defeat European Cup holders Barcelona in midweek . |
| 16 | Judge Denis Orde awarded Jeremy £150 from public funds at Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court . |
| 17 | Judge Kenneth Richardson ordered charges to be dropped against the 27-year-old and said : ‘ Beyond wishing you a happy married life , I do not wish to say any more . ’ |
| 18 | Judge Kenneth Richardson told him : ‘ You have been convicted of a shocking murder and it is only by sheer luck that it was not two . ’ |
| 19 | He had asked the court for a ruling after Judge Robert Lymbery and Judge Kenneth Machin excluded the public from pre-trial hearings in September . |
| 20 | ‘ After Nicholl was sacked Ian Branfoot took over and told me I had no future under him . ’ |
| 21 | They would trip off from school at four o'clock on a Friday , bright-eyed and singing Marc Bolan hits , and return glassy-eyed and forlorn on a Monday , having woken up on Sunday morning in a ditch with a bull-necked squaddie from Preston called Steve , with tobacco breath and boils on his neck . |
| 22 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 9 reported that although the decision to cancel Netherlands aid had been taken by President Suharto , it was widely supported by the government and bureaucracy . |
| 23 | In Goldfinger , when the plan to nuke Fort Knox goes awry , the glitter-loving head of Auric Industries machine-guns his own men . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Recital has launched its first client/server version , allowing DEC users to use the Recital 4GL as a front-end to an RdB database . |
| 25 | Then , luckily , Old Red had the bright idea of suggesting General Francis used his spinal trouble as his main reason for making this unexpected trip to Town . |
| 26 | We went to see Colin Wakeham to ask him on whose authority he 'd run the competiton . |
| 27 | Judge Marvin Goodman told her : ‘ Your acts were not impulsive . |
| 28 | There is no risk , thank God , of Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to enter the Commons , a place of meagre payment , but the Guardian created a fearful frisson when it wickedly asked Bernard Manning to fill the first of its ‘ How I am Voting ’ slots , and drew a mouthful of club-night nastiness . |
| 29 | Says Chubby : ‘ One reporter said I made Bernard Manning look like Andy Pandy . |
| 30 | Judge Patrick Medd sentenced Kerry to 12 months in jail suspended for two years … |