Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun prp] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 2 | He came back in the middle of the morning and his eyes met Jenna 's at once . |
| 3 | Then her sad eyes met Morse 's in a sort of distant , anonymous camaraderie : she smiled across , almost fully . |
| 4 | The brown eyes met Fowler 's in an open challenge . |
| 5 | His eyes found Nell 's in ominous silence . |
| 6 | He shook his head , his eyes meeting Dana 's in the mirror . |
| 7 | Each man was sentenced to five years for conspiracy to defraud Lloyd 's of London of £1.8 million , five years concurrently for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from their firm — for which the £533,000 fine was also imposed — and 12 months concurrently for conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
| 8 | The coins of a King Eadwald precede Cenwulf 's in East Anglia , and hint at another short-lived rising against Mercian overlordship . |
| 9 | A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago . |
| 10 | They rattled to a halt and Miss Labrooy 's brown , far-seeing eyes engaged Harry 's in earnest scrutiny . |
| 11 | Although the Club engaged Carter 's in this instance , the business was later transferred to Messrs. Suttons . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard 's KGB claims DEC/Europe is under orders not to sell Unix and move Vax 4000s and 6000s instead even though Europe is hot for Unix : It 's the margins , you see . |
| 13 | But SPUC says BPAS is in decline , hit by the loss in feminist fervour and decline in powers of the pro-abortion lobby in the trade unions and Labour . |
| 14 | A new girl called Laura is in my class she has a real cockney accent and she 's hilarious ! |
| 15 | Her gaze followed Vitor 's through the archway into the living-room . |
| 16 | Th th there 's a place a coffee , tea room place called Betty 's in York , there where took me in where you have the head waiter take you to your table , for coffee , you know wonderful ! |
| 17 | India 's population to surpass China 's by 2011 |
| 18 | The best place to survey Cairo is from the top of the Cairo Tower where one can survey the whole teeming , colourful metropolis built upon the foundations of the legendary city of Babylon . |
| 19 | Robinson believes Mallender is at his best when he cuts down his pace , and cites what happened on the slow Bath pitch . |
| 20 | Are you going to sacrifice the chance to help Chester 's on the altar of your pride and independence , Virginia ? ’ |
| 21 | 1.55:IMPRESSIVE Mackeson winner Tipping Tim is worth opposing on an 8lb higher mark with the ground softer than he likes . |
| 22 | YORK HOUSE 13 October : The Duke of Kent , as Vice Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board , this morning visited Colman 's of Norwich and , later , visited Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education , Norfolk . |
| 23 | Friends clamoured to escape the trauma of walking endlessly up and down Glasgow 's Byres Road with a bottle of Hirondelle looking for a party to gatecrash , and so these Hogmanay house parties swelled in numbers yearly until the queue for the bathroom in the morning rivalled McDonald 's in Red Square . |
| 24 | It 's twenty one miles from Northampton , they never cla I mean down here people think Northampton is in the north . |
| 25 | They used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into thinking the gems had been bought from the Indian company , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 26 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 27 | This reached a climax on 1 April 1258 when Aymer 's men attacked John 's at Shere and killed one of them . |
| 28 | PETER STRATFORD / Chamber of Commerce says Swindon is in competition with Europe and other towns and cities in Britain . |
| 29 | Major says Britain 's on the mend . |
| 30 | Hawick 's hooker and captain Jim Hay , a former B cap , has torn a hamstring and will miss his club 's match this weekend with relegation threatened Heriot 's at Mansfield Park . |