Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 2 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 3 | David Quarmby helped her in choosing these topics and assisted her with some of her coursework . |
| 4 | Occasionally , Hector gratified her by using it . |
| 5 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 6 | Billy was awarded a Benefit on Wednesday 15 April 1931 against the Combined Universities , but a knock in the League match on the previous Saturday prevented him from playing — so he appeared as linesman instead ! |
| 7 | Britta hated herself for wanting the arm to encircle her again . |
| 8 | The Rock of Pakistan contented himself with keeping watch for that bit longer . |
| 9 | Susan Clements borrows it for discussing some issues to do with drug and alcohol teams . |
| 10 | But David surprised me by saying , ‘ OK , now we 've got that out of the way , let's go and do the rest of the album ’ . |
| 11 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 12 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 13 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 14 | He did , however , mention his Stunt Bat which Graham Mackereth gave him for giving a speech . |
| 15 | Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside . |
| 16 | His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics . |
| 17 | For shocked managing director 's wife Anne Bevins accused him of producing ‘ hard-core pornography ’ in her office . |
| 18 | Madreidetic had nothing against franchising : there were tawdry oriental souks ; Andronican holos where every passer-by became a hero or a young beauty ; jungles full of bird-song . |
| 19 | Okay Jean thank you for raising the point . |
| 20 | Becky cautioned him against rushing into another venture before they had discovered what their profit margins were like , and then only if the rather elderly assistants knew what they were up to . |
| 21 | When Woolley instructed them in shooting the enemy in the back he was not being melodramatic , he really meant it , because Woolley was a professional . |
| 22 | Mr Tuckett muttered something about having to get back to work and Bernice said that would be fine , as she could drop me back in her car . |
| 23 | Earlier this year ICI committed itself to making information on its waste generation available to the public . |
| 24 | Whatever Albie got himself into seems to have caught the attention of a lot of people . |
| 25 | This is represented by point D. To condense it without reducing its temperature , its pressure would have to be increased to point D " on the line . |
| 26 | Spain has plenty of catching up to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Take your bag and get out , ’ Jake told her without looking at her . |
| 28 | Bishop levelled his gun , but Tiw prevented him from getting a clear view of the target . |
| 29 | Thucydides distinguished himself by transferring the real cause of the Peloponnesian War to the more impersonal fears inspired in the Peloponnesians by Athens . |
| 30 | Zen murmured something about needing to find his mother a present , and Cinzia immediately took charge . |