Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Town , built in a time of strife , occupies a fairly small area and nestles for protection close to the Castle . |
| 2 | news on Ronny Johnsen ( who has been linked with Leeds as a central defender ) is that he starts for Norway tonight as the 1 ( lone atttacker ) in our 4–5-1 formation against Turkey , i think the game will be shown live on SkySports . |
| 3 | Mum looks after Sally sometimes for me . |
| 4 | Though their decline is inevitable , and must usher in a period of unrest for the community , the maintenance of their own power adds of course directly to the utility of the governing elite and is a necessary condition for the order and stability of the community . |
| 5 | He looks like Dracula now in this |
| 6 | In contrast CBP100 interacts with CREB independently of the leucine zipper . |
| 7 | Edmund has always loved and seen Fanny as a sister and now that his eyes have been widened to see Mary Crawford 's actual character he looks at Fanny now as his future wife . |
| 8 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 9 | Since the precise criteria of synonymy can not be defined , it is argued , there can be no useful work for this concept to do ; unless one thinks of synonymy merely as one of " degree " . |
| 10 | This in turn allows for control even with off-centre hits . |
| 11 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 12 | Prince Charles arrives in Edinburgh tonight for a reception at the palace and a private viewing of the paintings . |
| 13 | The Festival of the Serpents — known as Nagapanchami — occurs in India generally in August after the monsoon rains . |
| 14 | When he plays Mowgli , Karim 's skin is deemed too pallid and he is forced to wear black-and-white minstrel greasepaint ; cast as a downtrodden immigrant in his next part , he caricatures Changez , his fat , idle and ugly cousin-in-law , who arrives from India halfway through the novel . |
| 15 | He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights . |
| 16 | Friday twenty eighth of June passes without incident apart from a quick visit from the local constabulary asking us to consider what a dangerous stunt it is that we are trying to pull . |
| 17 | A Residual Current Device ( RCD ) is a simple solution to help protect yourself , it cuts off power automatically within 40 milliseconds of an earth fault being detected . |
| 18 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 19 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 20 | This compares with quantities close to zero in the outer city , for most speakers . |
| 21 | William of Poitiers used the Gesta Normannorum Ducum when working on his history of William the Conqueror in the 1070s , but the beginning of his Gesta Guillelmi has not survived , and it now opens with events just after Cnut 's death . |
| 22 | INSTONIANS give six newcomers a chance to prove their worth when the new season swings into action tomorrow with an all-city clash against Collegians at Deramore . |
| 23 | ONLY ONE show opens in London immediately after Christmas — the American musical , Barnum , begins a three-week season in a big top on Shepherd 's Bush Green on December 27 . |
| 24 | So , if he stays in bed longer in the morning , the chores will be finished later which can be an irritation . |
| 25 | Liverpool Ladies team travels to Blackpool tonight for a first round tie in the J.M. Rose Bowl . |
| 26 | Hence , for example , in Habermas it is a speech community which reflects through language primarily on social or ethical norms . |
| 27 | Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities . |
| 28 | In most areas this consists of people roughly between ten and forty-five years old . |
| 29 | The water-holding frog , Cyclorana , appears above ground only during the brief and infrequent rain storms . |
| 30 | Although this is an old site , the present three-storey building appears to date largely from the 19th century . |