Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 2 | When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been . |
| 3 | Incensed , Maria flung up her head , choking on rage , and but for her fear of any physical contact between them , she might have lashed out at him . |
| 4 | Throughout the '80s , when Marinello lived out his decline in quiet pain , Best paraded his drink problem through the press and on one memorable occasion humiliated himself in front of a nationwide audience on Wogan . |
| 5 | Florrie made up her mind : she must buy some material and make a new set of curtains . |
| 6 | But despite his £500,000 windfall , Christie revealed yesterday he had refused to pay £55 for a special visa to race in Australia with Colin Jackson . |
| 7 | Egalitarian Rousseau lived out his life as the spoilt plaything of eccentric aristocrats . |
| 8 | He looked so extraordinarily like Tom Cornelius that Nora glanced at once at Sarah to see how she responded . |
| 9 | QPR skipper Ray Wilkins revealed how he diffused an explosive situation in Monday 's friendly at Luton . |
| 10 | Until ICI sold off its £5.5 million European business , Courtaulds ' presence in Germany was a two-man Application Support Centre in Bremen . |
| 11 | Sabrina zipped up her anorak as she stepped out into the cold night air and rummaged in her pockets for the keys to the Audi Coupe . |
| 12 | Three final assumptions permit Lucas to carry out his test . |
| 13 | Victoria made up her mind at once . |
| 14 | I would erm suggest that they go at Swindon to see how it 's done . |
| 15 | The decisive response by the Kennedy administration to a potential missile gap and the Sino-Soviet crisis were the two main factors forcing Moscow to scale down its claims . |
| 16 | As Colonel Windsor laid aside his pen , dawn was breaking murkily over the County Longford village of Granard , some 150 miles north of Cambridge Barracks . |
| 17 | Blushing and slowly understanding , Alexandra laid down her spoon . |
| 18 | On the other hand , GEC 's net monetary assets ( including stocks ) averaged 92 £1,650m over the period ( ICI averaged almost none ) . |
| 19 | Yanto did his best to make a dignified exit , but with the drink he had put away , and Sheila hanging on his arm , it was very difficult . |
| 20 | " Your brother Davy made up his mind yet , has he , my dear ? " |
| 21 | Isabel laid down her cards . |
| 22 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 23 | It was a spitting shout ; Fincara flung out her hands , and the white fire came leaping again . |
| 24 | An ‘ atrophied preface ’ , typically at the end of the boom , contains a mock Whitmanesque statement of stylistic plenty where Burroughs whips up its visual and aural multiplicity : ‘ This book spills off the page in all directions , kaleidoscope of vistas , medley of tunes and street noises , farts and riot yipes … ’ |
| 25 | Denis flung down his gun in disgust . |
| 26 | But Bernard fainted so she took him into casualty . |
| 27 | After qualifying in 1979 , Alison made up her mind to stay in accountancy . |
| 28 | Each evening , arriving at a new hotel , she carried from the car one suitcase , one shoulder bag , a striped beach bag and a Guernsey knotted round her shoulders . |
| 29 | Caroline and Roger make absolutely everything themselves . |
| 30 | Environmental health officer Richard Hallows admitted yesterday they were facing a problem and called on the public to help them . |