Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 2 | After staring for a moment , Schaffer straightened and blinked . |
| 3 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 4 | While serving in Zanzibar Rigby met and assisted several celebrated explorers : Sir Richard Burton ( who was to be accused by Rigby of withholding payment from porters and other members of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika — an accusation which was denied by Burton ) , J. H. Speke , and David Livingstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 5 | Next , Tod goes and gives him eight hundred bucks . |
| 6 | In fact , once the evidence that Minos lived and ruled in the Labyrinth at Knossos has been seen as hopelessly insubstantial , it begins to look as if there might have been no king at all . |
| 7 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
| 8 | Isabella turns and flashes back , ‘ And I 've come all the way from New York ! ’ |
| 9 | It was in vain that Nicandra cooed and called . |
| 10 | For the Town to win the Championship , they needed to win and Cardiff to lose or draw . |
| 11 | On that basis , and almost forgotten between these two dramatic giants , Newman commissioned and produced a science fiction serial for children in 1959 called Pathfinders in Space , a serial in seven parts , penned by Eric Paice and Malcolm Hulke — two authors who shared a friend in fellow writer David Whitaker , of whom more will be discussed in later chapters . |
| 12 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 13 | Jakarta 's Governor Wiyogo Atmordarminto insists that to drive a becak is a degrading occupation , considering Indonesia 's level of development . |
| 14 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 15 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 16 | Tied in with this , the Centre is carrying out work funded by the DoE to monitor and evaluate trends in housing management in both local authorities and housing associations in an attempt to assess the cost-effectiveness of management practices and identify ‘ good practice ’ . |
| 17 | Teresa Leinin met and married her husband in just three months . |
| 18 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 19 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 20 | ‘ The Lord said to Abraham , ‘ Why did Sarah laugh and say ‘ Shall I indeed bear a child when I am old ? ’ |
| 21 | Sophie agreed and looked out of the window . |
| 22 | Junctions which are initially SX create more disturbance , are transformed to either XS or XX puckers and push the facing junction in the direction of smaller ε-ζ values ( between 26° and -12° ) . |
| 23 | Maria confronts and explores her own jealousy through her obsession with the fugitive on the rooftops . |
| 24 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 25 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 26 | Leicester , of course , will claim an automatic place in the Premier League if they win and Middlesbrough lose or draw at Molineux the same dramatic last day scenario from which Brian Little , their manager , emerged with promotion honours at Darlington the previous two seasons . |
| 27 | Aunt Margaret and Melanie clapped and clapped and clapped . |
| 28 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 29 | ‘ I shall ask Doctor Sparrow to come and see your mother and give her a complete medical check . ’ |
| 30 | One day the King in a fit of caprice , sent a message to Kabir to come and sing before him . |