Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [noun prp] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pen of peace goes on show IMPORTANT and significant additions , including a fountain pen which David Lloyd George used to sign the Treaty of Versailles after World War I , are to go on show at the Lloyd George Museum in Llanystumdwy . |
| 2 | Alan J. Lerner used to say that any composer must write for himself — if you try and write what you think the public want , you 'll go mad . |
| 3 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's quite old now , of course , but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world … definitely a grand fromage ! ’ |
| 5 | The new Checkmate sails were used aboard the Jeanneau Selection that Eddie Warden Owen used to beat the French in their Jeanneau Selection Championship , and recently in the Hamble winter series on David Tydeman 's Bénéteau First 38s5 and the new J/35 , Jailbird , again sailed by Warden Owen . |
| 6 | The late Sir Charles Stanford used to complain that some composers seemed to imagine that harpists played with brooms instead of fingers . |
| 7 | Not an individual but , as Sir Keith Joseph used wisely to refer to it , ‘ the holder of my office ’ . |
| 8 | Louis B. Mayer used to boast that there were more stars in MGM than in heaven and nowhere had they shone more brightly . |
| 9 | The late Mr Walter Gilbey used to tell of many strange happenings during maintenance work in the tunnel ; mysterious noises , agonising cries and sounds of men fighting . |
| 10 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
| 11 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |
| 12 | 19 year old Private Clifford Sampson used to be a painter before joining the army . |
| 13 | C. I. Lewis used to claim that basic beliefs were ‘ certain' or ‘ incorrigible ’ ( Lewis , 1952 and 1946 , ch. 7 ) ; it is not always clear whether he thought of these as the same as being infallible or not . |
| 14 | As a youth , the Reverend A. Hunt Cooke used to sit behind Chapman and his family most Sunday mornings at St Mary 's Church , Hendon . |
| 15 | And partly , on a more mundane level , the puzzle of how a murder could have been committed in what John Dickson Carr used to call a hermetically sealed chamber " is perhaps the most intriguing one in the detection writer 's whole bag of tricks . |