Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gemini Project got under way last year when three of Denbigh High 's feeder schools were invited to prepare a video film on the links between the schools . |
| 2 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 3 | On March 12 Syria released from prison 302 Palestinians , the majority of whom were loyal to Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 4 | When Dot went to bed that night , Gloria laid the fawn coat over the top of the blanket . |
| 5 | Out of 700 cases that the PPL took to court last year , it is thought that as many as 100 could have been brought against hotels or restaurants . |
| 6 | KENNY DALGLISH 'S return to Anfield ended in heartbreak last night as his new club Blackburn Rovers were overcome in a titanic struggle with Liverpool . |
| 7 | ‘ The Bank of England got in touch last year . |
| 8 | An official at Vnesheconombank , the state-owned bank for foreign trade , suggests that the most accurate figure is $12 billion-13 billion , just slightly less than the $14 billion Russia received in aid last year . |
| 9 | made at the moment , but I was erm Gemma came for tea last night and she wears glasses she 's long sighted in one eye and er , anyway I noticed she 's not wearing them as much now , so I said to her mum what 's happening ? |
| 10 | On Sept. 21 President Elias Hrawi signed into law constitutional amendments which codified a series of far-reaching political reforms and effectively ushered in Lebanon 's Second Republic . |
| 11 | Frank looked at Rim sardonic ally . |
| 12 | Mr Preece said when Stepfind went into receivership last year Touche Ross took over its affairs . |
| 13 | Bronson immersed himself in work on television movies after his actress wife Jill Ireland died of cancer two years ago but he is now set to marry girlfriend Kim Weeks , 31 . |
| 14 | Artemis lay in bed that night , and wondered in the black , black dark . |
| 15 | Tyson 's lawyer Alan Dershowitz will claim that Washington tested for VD four weeks before meeting Tyson . |
| 16 | The final southbound working to run over the section from Dunford to Sheffield consisted of class 20 No. 20004 and a brake conveying a party of contractors who had been inspecting the remaining part of the route west of Penistone . |
| 17 | On April 19 King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed into law two acts which automatically dissolved all 61 of the country 's state enterprise unions [ see p. 38099 ] . |
| 18 | When Hitler and Mussolini stormed to power 60 years ago , they were angry , hungry , young 40 year olds leading mass parties of 20 year olds . |
| 19 | Mr Malone died in hospital five days later . |
| 20 | Franklin died of cancer 20 March 1958 in London , having been initially struck by the disease in 1956 . |
| 21 | Leland 's firm made the engines , transmissions and steering gear and Cadillac went from building two cars in 1902 to producing 1895 in the year between March 1903 and March 1904 . |
| 22 | The PB was to be recorded in terms of the time Olwyn went to bed each evening and the CB in terms of the number of times Olwyn was in bed by 8pm . |
| 23 | Though the NUWW continued to foreground traditional philanthropy , its annual conferences displayed a growing concern with the problems of male sexual behaviour , informed by current feminist demands . |
| 24 | In such a case , as Lord Haldane said in North Western Salt Co Ltd v Electrolytic Alkali Co Ltd [ 1914 ] AC 461 , the law " still looks carefully to the interests of the public , but it regards the parties as the best judges of what is reasonable as between themselves " . |
| 25 | When republican Germany threatened to institute social reform , the privileged class mobilized the apparatus of the state — judiciary , bureaucracy and army — in order to establish a ‘ bureaucratic dictatorship ’ in place of parliamentary legislative power . |
| 26 | Silently , Kirov peeled off sis hundred roubles and placed the money in Zhukov 's hand . |
| 27 | Between 1961 and 1970 local authorities and new town corporations in the United Kingdom built on average 161,000 dwellings a year , and in 1967 the public sector ( including a small contribution from housing associations ) completed 211,000 dwellings — 51 per cent of all housebuilding completions . |
| 28 | Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about . |
| 29 | Colin Pennington 's wife Joanne went into labour three weeks early in the bathroom of their home in Runcorn , Cheshire . |
| 30 | Willie lay in bed that night , tired and aching , but the aches were very pleasant ones and as he slept he dreamt that Adam and Eve were being chased by a large whale and that he stood in the garden of Eden wondering if God was nubbly and ate infinite sauce and sagacity . |