Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His son Charles commissioned William Burges [ q.v. ] to design a magnificent monument and mausoleum at Sharnbrook . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The RNLI commissioned William Osborne to complete FAB 3 as a first-of- series . |
| 5 | Macbeth fought King Duncan in 1040 , and killed him , perhaps near Elgin , not far from Lossie Forest . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | This remarkable fact led Roger Penrose to propose the cosmic censorship hypothesis , which might be paraphrased as " God abhors a naked singularity . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When President Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 , the soviet leader scoffed at the Shah . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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. |
| 15 | As I proceeded towards the doors , I realized M. Dupont was following me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | This led Gary Lynch , working in Irvine , California , to propose that LTP was initiated in a process involving enhanced calcium uptake into the postsynaptic cell . |
| 20 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 21 | Shortly after landing at the site , McGuinness met W/C Parsons , Embarkation Officer at Glasgow ; S/L Orr , Maintenance Command ; F/L Morgan , 50 Squadron , S/L Wall from the Air Ministry and S/L Hughes who was in charge of the RAF ground crews tasked with maintaining the Spitfires during their transfer . |
| 22 | Nicaragua on June 2 called on the USA to take part in talks to establish norms of diplomatic behaviour and visa regulations , and later in June asked Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo , the Archbishop of Managua , to arrange talks , but this idea was rejected by the spokesperson for the US administration , Marlin Fitzwater . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's an atrocious season , ’ admitted Dean Hutchinson . |
| 24 | Yet somehow she shared Alison Walker 's faith that everything would be all right . |
| 25 | ‘ And finally , ’ announced Brigadier Canford , ‘ we come to the Mary Tyler Award for the most promising girl player . ’ |
| 26 | In 1989 he asked Roger A. d'Hulst , a leading authority on Jordaens , to organise the current exhibition . |
| 27 | I asked Roger Mortlock from Oxaid why the leaflet was so explicit . |
| 28 | I asked Roger Lasko , Head of Job Broking Branch , who is masterminding the ES side of operations , about the main elements of the new programmes . |
| 29 | I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants , Mark Mattock , Gareth Fryer , Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness , five of the country 's leading rose experts , to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas . |
| 30 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |