Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | Dickens ' timeless story , now coming up to its 146th Christmas , has been adapted with affection by David Holman and directed with dash by Gwenda Hughes . |
| 3 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 4 | ‘ It ca n't be much fun living next door to Dersingham and having to be grateful to him for having given you a living . |
| 5 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
| 6 | Another item borrowed from the Norton Utilities goodie bag will be Norton SpeedDisk , a disk compressor and defragmenter , also licensed by Stac and used in Stacker . |
| 7 | The masher turned his attention from the girl to Neil and moved towards him menacingly . |
| 8 | He will follow the route taken by Gary Wolstenholme and play in The Masters , The Open and other major world events . |
| 9 | Their five-night tour takes in Durham Cathedral on Monday and Selby Abbey on Tuesday and culminates with Evensong at York Minster on Wednesday . |
| 10 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 11 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 12 | They have set up a special stand at the exhibition , which began on Tuesday and runs until next Saturday . |
| 13 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 14 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 15 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 16 | The study consisted of an analysis of data on retirement and early retirement from the ‘ After Redundancy ’ project conducted by lain Noble , John Westergaard , and Alan Walker and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 17 | Hartlepool Council is taking part in a crime audit organised by Newcastle University student Rebecca Walker and funded by the town 's Safer Cities initiative which aims to detail the costs of crime , and help plan a crime prevention strategy . |
| 18 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 19 | One of the only two batsmen to average 50 in first-class cricket before the First World War , and with a career average exceeded only by Hick and Boycott among players to have represented England , K. S. Ranjitsinhji was another of the fastest scorers , dealing in deft deflections as well as , at times , the big-hitting game . |
| 20 | Many baby orangs are caught in the forests of Indonesia and taken by ship to Taiwan , where they are sold as pets , shop props and showbiz gimmicks — so many , in fact , that there is said to be a greater density of orangs in Taiwan 's capital city , Taipei , than in their own habitat . |
| 21 | Most puzzling of all was the large star-shaped island then called Celebes and now part of Indonesia and known as Sulawesi . |
| 22 | McGuinness is more hard-line than Adams and reckoned to be in closer touch with the mood of die-hard republicans . |
| 23 | Curated by Meg O'Rourke and continuing until 28 April the show includes work by , among others , Dennis Ashbaugh , Jacqueline Humphries , Sean Scully , Suzan Etkin , Stephen Westfall , Ricardo d'Oliveira , Wolfgang Staehle and Karin Sander . |
| 24 | On 14 October , Cradock left the Falklands and steamed around Cape Horn to intercept the Germans . |
| 25 | He went back to his worktable at home in Church Row , confident that Sergeant Phyllis Henley would soon be captured by Jean and brought to him . |
| 26 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 27 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 28 | The fellow looked furtively round , licked his lips , and beckoned Corbett and Ranulf into a shadowy window recess . |
| 29 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 30 | ‘ Come in , English Clerk , ’ the Bishop beckoned Corbett and Ranulf to the bench before his table . |