Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only assistance for the scientists were from the Astrological Association of Great Britain who organised it . |
| 32 | ‘ Mam , this is the daughter of Dewi Morgan who taught me my trade . |
| 33 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 34 | It was last exhibited in 1945 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and was sold to its present owner , private French collector Jacques Walter , in 1954 by Wildenstein of New York who bought it from the collection of Mrs Alice Kurtz . |
| 35 | Finally , David Wilson confirmed that he would be prepared to offer advice to any member of CE Staff who contacted him to address any specific issues . |
| 36 | A friend of Henry James who shared his passion for Venice ( although the novelist had reservations about her creation of a fake palace in his home town ) , Mrs Gardner transferred her passion from clothes and jewels to art in the 1890s . |
| 37 | In the 65th minute , Cookstown grabbed a second courtesy of Ricky Averill who weaved his way between two defenders before curling the ball into the top corner of the Ballymoney net . |
| 38 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 39 | It was not until the final pre-Budget meeting that it was dropped , at the insistence of Margaret Thatcher who felt it might sour relations with the press at a time when they would otherwise be enthusing over economic achievements . |
| 40 | But the relatives of those who died , like Andy Barnes who lost his 15-year-old daughter Paula , are still waiting for compensation . |
| 41 | Ron was kind ; like Mr Scrooge he gave us Christmas Day off . |
| 42 | She had abundant letters from people like Coventry Patmore who admired her ‘ sweet simplicity ’ and ‘ noble resignation ’ . |
| 43 | Many years ago when I was in a play with Thora Hird she presented us all at the end of the show with a bottle of champagne . |
| 44 | He was , with Giulio Argan who predeceased him by a month , and Federico Zeri , perhaps the leading opinion-former in the Italian art world , known to the general public from his articles in L'Espresso and then , from 1977 , La Repubblica . |
| 45 | As he walked back up Fleet Street he thought it would be very satisfying to get even with Wickham one day . |
| 46 | The Bogyoke had lunch with Lord Wavell who recognised him as ‘ a strong character ’ but also warned Pethick-Lawrence that their negotiations would be difficult : ‘ He struck me as a suspicious , ignorant but determined little tough . ’ |
| 47 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 48 | In a lengthy and revealing BBC radio interview on 17 December 1985 with Michael Charlton she defended her brand of Conservatism : |
| 49 | In connection with Michael Stein she suspected it would not . |
| 50 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 51 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 52 | To his hosts , it must have seemed a possibility , at least , that in William Joyce they had their most important catch of all the queer fish at Charlottenburg . |
| 53 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 54 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
| 55 | In 1870 he persuaded Queen Victoria to let him , in addition , the substantial White Lodge in Richmond Park which doubled his household expenses . |
| 56 | From Mr evidence I assessed her net year earnings up to her fourth year as nine thousand pounds and with a multiplier of one , award that sum . |
| 57 | ’ Moby Dick ’ is the latest production from Cameron Mackintosh who brought us such favourites as ’ Cats ’ , ’ Miss Saigon ’ and ’ Phantom of the Opera ’ . |
| 58 | Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk . |
| 59 | In Cape Town he met his wife , Beatrix Powell , daughter of Robert William Hazell , medical practitioner in Cape Town . |
| 60 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |