Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 32 | It was Sir Keith Joseph who opened her eyes to what was subsequently dubbed ‘ Thatcherism ’ . |
| 33 | This week 's prize goes by unanimous decision of the judges to East Sussex director Nicholas Holbrook who sent me this letter on alarmingly realistic DoH headed notepaper , with alarmingly realistic signatures of SSI supremo Herbert Laming and Alan Langlands of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 34 | this was a game that Oxford just could n't afford to lose … they played it right … kept the defence tight … looked for the break … the opening up front … the hero was a local lad Mark Druce who celebrated his home debut with his first goal … he used his head in more ways than one … |
| 35 | These included ICI executive director Tony Rodgers who told them ‘ In ICI we must be environmentalists as well as businessmen . ’ |
| 36 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 37 | ‘ The king my father learned of my regard for yourself from Sir Thomas Vaughan who saw it as his duty to inform him , ’ Edward told her with notable reluctance . |
| 38 | THERE is not better way to underline the problems of distance and climate that are a unique hallmark of the game in Canada than … talking to Canadian RU executive director John Billingsley who mentioned his Ottawa lawn had been deep in snow for more than three months — in Vancouver I was about to bring out the mower for the third time in a garden bright with spring blossoms . |
| 39 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 40 | Einstein was fortunate in having a friend Marcel Grossmann who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and who worked with him until Einstein left Zurich in 1914 . |
| 41 | Glasses , a beard and lots of grey hairs — 47-year-old Rod Stewart 's new look seems to have stunned his model wife Rachel Hunter who joined him at a Los Angeles club . |
| 42 | The four-hour debate included some bitter personal attacks upon Frank , particularly by the California Republican William Dannemeyer who demanded his colleague 's expulsion . |
| 43 | In my youth I could read Jules Verne and H. G. Wells who took their hero explorers to the moon and to the depths of the ocean , but the imaginary worlds of Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle were still located here on earth in unmapped corners of Africa and South America . |
| 44 | The first man on the Moon , as opposed to in the Moon , was American astronaut Neil Armstrong who took his ‘ giant leap for mankind ’ in July 1969 . |
| 45 | It was Ninette de Valois who put him in touch with John Piper , whose work he had already known and admired before leaving Cape Town , although only from reproductions , just as much as his musical knowledge came from recordings . |
| 46 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 47 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 48 | Regional Manager Malcolm McDowell presented the award to Loughborough Manager Paul Whittaker who thanked his 13 staff for their support . |
| 49 | But the Second Division battlers clinched a Lancashire Cup semi-final spot with the help of two touchdowns from winger Scott Ranson who took his tally to 13 in 14 matches since his arrival from Swinton last season . |
| 50 | The statement follows a claim by Sinn Fein councillor Fra McCann who said he had received complaints about dealers selling ecstasy at the council-owned concert hall . |
| 51 | Freeman has given the example of a West Riding firm which despatched its woollen goods entirely by road , and it was the customers who paid carriage . |
| 52 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 53 | But it was the arrival of the brilliant paper from the much younger , socially insignificant Alfred Russel Wallace which forced his hand — affording Darwin the full posthumous credit for Wallace 's discovery , and the bequeathing to subsequent generations of a " Darwinian bias " which is considerably less enlightened than Wallace 's own interpretation . |
| 54 | The posters provoked a complaint from Tory councillor Peter Jones who said they would drive passengers away and prove ‘ the biggest financial blow any bus company could suffer ’ . |
| 55 | The ‘ Squidgy Tapes ’ scandal was quickly followed by a similar tape of Charles telling Camilla Parker Bowles he loved her . |
| 56 | To greet us was our ever smiling secretary Hilda Hewitt who saw us safely installed . |
| 57 | THE year of 1992 was one of considerable milestones for Father Edmund McCarten who celebrated his 80th birthday on 30th March and his Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the Priesthood on 26th July this year . |
| 58 | Our chief source of information on Roman architecture for the first century B.C. is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio who wrote his famous work De Architectura , which he dedicated to Augustus , in 25 B.C. Vitruvius , as we call him , sets out his plans for an ideal Roman city in the first volume of his work . |
| 59 | After this initial rebuild , further work was carried out by several resident archbishops , most particularly San Carlo Borromeo who used his favourite architect Pelligrino Tibaldi ( Il Pellegrini ) . |
| 60 | It tastes very good , certainly nothing like the Cheltenham Spa water which made me feel ill |