Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 2 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 3 | Then along comes old McWhirter and says he will plonk his life savings in the school . ’ |
| 4 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if I 'm a peeping Tom that makes us about even , would n't you say ? ’ |
| 6 | Throughout his country he is known as the ‘ Professor with the smile ’ , and when he returns to his village in central Vietnam , children follow him like the Pied Piper and call him ‘ Uncle Vo ’ . |
| 7 | Pilot Gerard Gaillard landed the stricken aircraft on the A40 in the French Alps and steered it into crash barriers . |
| 8 | First I 'm going down to the village to fetch old Bonnie and get her to have a look at that ankle . |
| 9 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 10 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 11 | The Kabbalists developed a similar mythical conception of the inner life of God in their depiction of the world of the Sephirot , the divine spheres which emanated from the unknowable God and enabled him to be known by man : these emanations provided man with the means of ascending to the deity . |
| 12 | There was n't much time left — certainly not enough time to be taking the wrong tack with old Cohen and antagonising him . |
| 13 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 14 | But instead of openly endorsing Brezhnev 's initiative he called for ‘ more details of the ways to neutralise the Arabian Gulf and keep it out of international conflict ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the people I talked to was a salesman for Allied Dunbar and said they 'd do a great job . |
| 16 | Such however is the mighty Providence that guides us , we were adverted in due time withal and haply able to forestall the deadly peril to our settlement , that is still but a mewling infant scarce able to totter on bandy legs . |
| 17 | Probably the most obvious , and certainly the most enduring , has been the use of tiled motifs , and in some cases larger , more intricate designs , to decorate the platform walls of the main Underground stations of central London and tie them in with their locality above ground . |
| 18 | And when she has fed our little William and tucked him into bed . ’ |
| 19 | He watched me pull down the Jolly Roger and throw it overboard , then he said , ‘ I expect you 'll want to go ashore now . |
| 20 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 21 | Maclean also concentrated on getting the ball past the talented Umar and denying him further chances to hit crisp drives into the nicks and towards difficult angles . |
| 22 | It would dearly like ( as one railway manufacturer has proposed ) to rip the diesel engines out of an existing HST and replace them with electric engines , and then use this train for tests . |
| 23 | Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours . |
| 24 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 25 | But the gods were kind to the stricken Baldur and restored him to life . |
| 26 | He went straight out , went to four families , whose names immediately suggested themselves to him , checked his facts and figures , got in while discussion was still on and flatly contradicted the great John and gave him the facts and figures to prove it , to tell him that he was wrong . |
| 27 | Perhaps Otley would clean the oven and water the busy Lizzies and leave me here . |
| 28 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
| 29 | Heavenly father , we praise you as the living God and thank you that you have called us to look to the growth of your church in this parish ; we thank you for those who have worked to help plan the proposed church building ; we especially pray for John Taylor , our architect , and the city council planners and planning committee . |
| 30 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |