Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 2 | Outbreaks of fighting continued during March especially in western Georgia , where Gamsakhurdia supporters held positions in the autonomous republic of Abkhazia , and further south around Zugdidi and the Black Sea port of Poti . |
| 3 | Do you feel different , did you , do you feel differently about Harlow now in retrospect ? |
| 4 | And a lot of people have rallied round Terry Biddlecombe , very popular man , Injured Jockeys ' Fund among others and he 's back in the back in the swim fully employed and in action for Mackeson today at er Cheltenham . |
| 5 | Captain McCann ( inset , left ) is one of two masters in command of Buffalo and , with Captain Nick Spencer ( inset , right ) , was with the ship during the Fleet Review off Holyhead earlier in the week . |
| 6 | Although Hamilton Oil 's exploration rig Sonat Arcade Frontier departed from the area off Bardsey shortly after Christmas , it has left in its wake a substantial lobby of conservationists , environmental activists and supporters which views the prospect of large scale industrial development as posing a serious threat , particularly to protected species such as the bottle-nose dolphin and other marine and bird life . |
| 7 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 8 | Chamberlain 's practical experience of first-class cricket is slim , confined to six matches for Northamptonshire shortly after the war . |
| 9 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 10 | Wright is determined at last to become as prolific for his country as he always is for Arsenal especially with Alan Shearer lurking in the wings for Holland next month . |
| 11 | Such was the man who departed post-haste for Verdun shortly after midnight on the 24th/25th of February . |
| 12 | A Russian tanker had struck one off Kuwait earlier in the year . |
| 13 | Mum looks after Sally sometimes for me . |
| 14 | It brought her feelings for Alexander sharply into focus . |
| 15 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 16 | Report No. 164 " Report on Formalities for Contracts for Sale etc. of Land " " ( HC2 : 1987 ) , para 5.5 . |
| 17 | In addition to Cardinal , Szabo , Jackart , Charron , Woods and Lougheed , the capped players in the 22-strong party are outside-half Bob Ross and lock Ian Gordon , a replacement for Charron late in the second half for last year 's famous win over Scotland . |
| 18 | Agony flooded through Lexandro momentarily as if molten iron from a smelter had been diverted through his veins and his intestines . |
| 19 | Nothing could better have driven her fears for Benedict temporarily from her mind . |
| 20 | It is only when he is on the ship bound for England away from mental setbacks such as this at court , that give Hamlet the courage to return to kill Claudius . |
| 21 | Smith was due to box for England again against Italy soon but has decided to switch his allegiance to the paid ranks instead . |
| 22 | She won two of her three matches in the Home Internationals of that year and went on to play for England again in 1935 . |
| 23 | This central assessment of local needs totalled £21.2 milliards ( i.e.£21 200 million ) for England alone in 1985/6 . |
| 24 | Since 1977/8 , funding for hospital and community health services ( about £9 milliards for England alone in 1985/6 ) has been determined according to a formula named after the acronym of the Resource Allocation Working Party ( RAWP ) , which had the avowed aim of eventually achieving ‘ equal opportunity of access to health care for people at equal risk ’ ( DHSS , 1976b ) . |
| 25 | Pied flycatchers have been the subject of study in the Forest of Dean ever since 1942 when the first eighty boxes were nailed into place . |
| 26 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 27 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 28 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 29 | The setting was so romantically idyllic , with the distant jangle of yacht masts , soft calypso music , the rustle of breeze in the palms , that she thought of Mortimer again with a sick wave of anger . |
| 30 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |