Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 2 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 3 | His son Charles commissioned William Burges [ q.v. ] to design a magnificent monument and mausoleum at Sharnbrook . |
| 4 | They commissioned William White to build the church in 1871 , built a school and new cottages , pulled down the old manor and the cottages surrounding it and erected a large Victorian house . |
| 5 | The RNLI commissioned William Osborne to complete FAB 3 as a first-of- series . |
| 6 | Macbeth fought King Duncan in 1040 , and killed him , perhaps near Elgin , not far from Lossie Forest . |
| 7 | I AM glad you publicised Victoria Stone 's campaign for legislation to prevent learner drivers being supervised by , perhaps , an equally young but recently-qualified driver ( Weekend Guardian , October 28 ) . |
| 8 | Detailed information did not increase patient anxiety ( mean Spielberger score at baseline 33.7 ( 95% confidence interval 31.3 to 36.2 ) , after information 34.8 ( 32.1 to 37.5 ) ; p=0.20 , paired t test ) . |
| 9 | Normally distributed data were analysed by one way analysis of variance or paired t test and abnormally distributed data by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test . |
| 10 | When the effects of drugs were assessed , a Student paired t test was used . |
| 11 | Data are expressed as mean ( SEM ) ANOVA , a bilateral paired t test and linear correlation coefficients using X-Y pairs were performed for statistical analysis . |
| 12 | He resigned , however , in July 1976 , four months before Franco 's death , apparently at the request of King Juan Carlos who appointed Adolfo Suárez González to steer through democratic reforms leading to free elections [ see p. 27853 ] . |
| 13 | This remarkable fact led Roger Penrose to propose the cosmic censorship hypothesis , which might be paraphrased as " God abhors a naked singularity . " |
| 14 | This was symbolized in 1908 when the World Sunday School Association held its sixth conference in Washington , under the presidency of F. B. Meyer , the Baptist who succeeded Newman Hall as minister of Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road . |
| 15 | The new signings also face the pressure of winning over the fans who idolised Ian Wright , now at Arsenal , and Mark Bright who moved to Sheffield Wednesday last week . |
| 16 | Then the shanty-towns began to thicken till suspiciously flimsy concrete blocks announced La Paz which sat cradled deep in the mountains , a crush of modest skyscrapers and stone churches , glowing red in the late sunshine . |
| 17 | Yeah , we got P T H , through hole |
| 18 | When President Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 , the soviet leader scoffed at the Shah . |
| 19 | Metal studded watch straps , sharpened coins , Kung Fu stars with the edges filed down , also came into this category . |
| 20 | The Board claimed the crew of the liner , the world 's largest , and a harbour pilot made course changes without realising that would take the vessel over a shoal , marked by the crew as an area to avoid . |
| 21 | He became director of the Manchester City Art Galleries 1945–52 , and remained there until he succeeded Ellis Waterhouse as director of the National Gallery of Scotland 1952–70 . |
| 22 | In 1711 he produced handwriting plates included in Penmanship in its Utmost Beauty and Extent ( 1731 ) , by George Bickham [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | The fabric , at first , was black plastic bags , but later became tent fabric , also from the attic . |
| 24 | The MRTA on Oct. 4 kidnapped Héctor Delgado Parker , a media magnate and a friend and former aide of García , from his car in central Lima , killing his driver and wounding his bodyguard and three others . |
| 25 | Sultan Ali Keshtmand Chairman of Executive Committee of Council of Ministers Mohammad Sarwar Mangal Deputy Prime Minister Sayed Amanoddin Amin Deputy Prime Minister Mahbubollah Koshani Deputy Prime Minister Mahmud Barialay Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Hakim Deputy Prime Minister Lt.-Gen. |
| 26 | As I proceeded towards the doors , I realized M. Dupont was following me . |
| 27 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 28 | In 1483 John Howard duke of Norfolk made William Boleyn his deputy as admiral for the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk , and it is possible that Boleyn had initially held the post as Gloucester 's deputy . |
| 29 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 30 | His ‘ Vrouw met dode Vogel ’ should sell for Dfl80,000–120,000 ( £29,400–44,000 ; $44,000–67,000 ) and ‘ Het Signaal ’ for Dfl100,000–150,000 ( £36,700–55,000 ; $55,800–83,800 ) . |