Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge is power and withholding it meant that Wheeler could then play a blame game with Ian for his not knowing something which he ought to have known . |
| 2 | Why do you think ICI decided on the site at Avonmouth for their very large new chemical works ? |
| 3 | Why would the Labor Party exchange Mr Hawke for someone even more unpopular ? |
| 4 | Aunt Margaret wanted babies so much , she wanted Victoria for her very own . |
| 5 | The cry ‘ Rome on the Rates ’ contributed to the defeat of the Conservatives in 1906 — which Churchill for one never forgot . |
| 6 | Second place was awarded to Bill Inglis for his very atmospheric shot of a steam loco leaving Douglas Station . |
| 7 | Duncan phoned me on Friday about something else and said oh have we had this tape , so I said yes , and he said have you seen it and I said no not yet , and he said , erm but he thought it was quite good erm |
| 8 | The show runs until Saturday for anyone else interested in going along . |
| 9 | Why , why had n't I told Toby about it long ago ? |
| 10 | They were skiing more slowly now , coming down the valley with Castell Rocamar like something out of a fairy-tale at its head . |
| 11 | Why the hell could n't she turn up in a Barbour , a headscarf and a Volvo like everyone else 's mother ? |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't really compare Kylie with anyone else around at the moment , and probably never will . |
| 13 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 14 | Then there was the Mondays , always about to gatecrash the States with their apparently cleaned up act — and their new LP , ‘ Pills 'N Thrills And Bellyaches ! ’ is as close to the US mainstream as the Ryders can get without losing their natural pop suss . |
| 15 | It was so very good to have Andrew and Irene McLellan with us throughout , and we welcomed Andrew 's idea of holding daily prayers for a hungry world ’ in the Chapel . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , yes , work , ’ said Dr Neil in his rather hateful way , as though every word she said was dubious in itself , and , even though they were , Sally-Anne could not help feeling righteously indignant . |
| 17 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 18 | But on Saturday in his very next match , Jolosa , 28 , was sent off again for twice attacking the rival goalie . |
| 19 | About the same time , a group of Royalist gentry seized Chichester from its more Puritan aldermen and Ford retired there to lead a force quickly besieged in the city by the Parliamentary troops commanded by Sir William Waller . |
| 20 | Given that he does n't want to see you and your suspicion is that he does n't want to see you because you have as it were the fingerprints of Gerry Adams on you now you 're tainted because of your relationship with Gerry Adams , what do you now do ? |
| 21 | ‘ Yeah , but that 's just like having fish and chips on a Friday to us sometimes . |
| 22 | This is Dahl at his most inventive and least violent best . |
| 23 | This is Brahms at his most radiant and affecting , music of such intimacy that one is not surprised to learn that its suitability for public performance was questioned . |
| 24 | With Kylie at her most vulnerable this was also the time when those who most despised her success happily fuelled rumours that she was anorexic . |
| 25 | Another of the Tractarian poets , Isaac Williams , reflected pathetically on visiting Ken 's tomb , whilst a similar visit by Richard Monckton Milnes , the future Man of Letters Lord Houghton , produced a poem exceeding Ken at his most bathetic and beginning , |
| 26 | The star of that upsetting movie , Terence Stamp , reminded me of Dana at his most perverse and enigmatic , half-god , half-demon , lover and destroyer . |
| 27 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 28 | If this happens , someone will have to rid Stonecutter 's Island of its very large and varied snake population . |
| 29 | Although stateside gossip recently had it that Hitachi Ltd would soon be ready with Unix on its mainframes ( UX No 384 ) , latest rumours suggest that BASF 's Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH — a European OEM for Hitachi Data Systems ' IBM-compatible mainframes — is tired of waiting , and may be close to signing a deal with IBM for its already proven AIX/ESA 2.1 mainframe version of Unix , which is an implementation of OSF/1 . |
| 30 | He 's got to come to learn to appreciate Jane for herself not because she is n't what Bertha is . |