Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 2 | She was going to murder Margaret tomorrow , going off with Dennis and leaving them like that . |
| 3 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
| 4 | On ( or soon after ) Oswine 's death Oswiu 's nephew Oethelwald , son of Oswald , secured the kingship in Deira ( HE 111 , 23 ) ( see Appendix , Figs 6.2 and 7.1 ) , though whether appointed to this position by Oswiu or acquiring it in opposition to his uncle is unknown . |
| 5 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |
| 6 | He held both of them for a moment before turning to Ian and presenting him with a sword drawn from its scabbard . |
| 7 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 8 | Last December they were instrumental in getting rid of Mr Gaidar and replacing him with one of those industrialists . |
| 9 | The prosecution say that following an armed robbery at a building society near Gloucester in 1988 White had been due to give evidence against Gardiner and implicating him in the crime . |
| 10 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're wearing that ridiculous outfit , ’ said Robert , ‘ and I do n't know why you 're telling all these things to Malik and telling him about things I gave you as a present . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The others hatched plans for him , like abducting Constanza and hiding her in the depth of Calabria . |
| 13 | John received the support of Innocent against the Magna Carta which the pope annulled in August 1215 , suspending Langton and summoning him as a participant to answer at Rome . |
| 14 | While Jacob was still shaking his head , Nahum said , ‘ I believe I owe you and your gang a debt of thanks for finding Anna and bringing her to safety . |
| 15 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Jenny , taking the traveller 's cheques from Adam and putting them into her flying jacket . |
| 16 | ‘ Where did you find this then , ma'am ? ’ asked the sergeant , taking the photo from Blanche and studying it by the map-reading light . |
| 17 | A central medallion depicts the hero grasping Antaeus and lifting him above the ground to sap his power . |
| 18 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 19 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 20 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 21 | The tutor appeared unsure , but the boy jumped up from his place , rushing to Beth and grabbing her by the hand . |
| 22 | ‘ Comin' up , ’ Jenkins replied , uncapping a Budweiser and placing it on the counter in front of Laidlaw . |
| 23 | They could also consider options looked at but rejected by the NGC , including upgrading the East-West Stella Harker line across the Pennines and linking it into the North-East system . |
| 24 | A famous one was dropping Ramadhin before the third Test in Australia and replacing him with Gibbs , whose Test career thus far had been fairly ordinary ; Gibbs took eight wickets in the match to see his team home and was under way as a real Test bowler . |
| 25 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 26 | Throughout the Bible there are instances of tribal religion melting their heartfelt yearning for God and transmuting it into idolatry . |
| 27 | San Jose , California-based 3C , now trafficking as Super Workstation with ex-Sony VP Mike Hilgenberg in as president , claims it is making the LSI/Sbus-based CPU and frame buffer boards for Goldstar 's Sparcettes in the US and shipping them to Korea for final assembly : it also says it 's planning a Viking-based add-in card and is designing its own Sbus/Mbus 24-bit and 32-bit graphics accelerators . |
| 28 | This government can not prove green credentials simply by moving Nick Ridley and replacing him with Patten , a much better public relations person , the slick following the Nick . ’ |
| 29 | After attacking Fiona and leaving her for dead , he later returned and repeatedly slashed her throat , ignoring her pleas for mercy . |
| 30 | One example of this imaginative aspect of the campaign was an exhibition of photographs portraying present day Mayo and comparing it with scenes from areas in Ireland where mining had taken place . |