Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 2 | After service in the Royal Army Medical Corps , Dr Burkitt worked in Uganda and later joined the Medical Research Council and became involved in cancer research . |
| 3 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 4 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 5 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 6 | Scottish Members raised in the House the problems faced by Scotland and clearly indentified the terrible damage that the poll tax was doing to the people of Scotland , but the Government continued to blunder on in their merry way . |
| 7 | The negotiations were conducted on Israel 's behalf by an American sill known only as " Adam " who was close to Mossad and also knew an Iranian merchant who was the friend and 'silent business partner " of the prime minister . |
| 8 | A hundred years ago , this man had stamped into the Medici Palace in Florence and nearly wrecked the whole Trapezuntine expedition . |
| 9 | They went on holiday to a farmhouse at Ponsworthy in Devon and thither came a vast parcel , from the Clerical and General Tailors ( Breeches Makers etc. ) , of Sackville Street , Piccadilly , bill £376 ; chimeres , wristbands , rochets , frills , breeches , gaiters , purple dress coat , black barathea breeches , patent court shoes , silver-plated shoe buckles , and other less rare articles of apparel . |
| 10 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 11 | It was a record attendance for a club game in Ireland and further illustrated the remarkable devotion to rugby of the city of Limerick . |
| 12 | ‘ After completing three ‘ A ’ Levels in Law , French and Economics , I did a law degree at Birmingham Polytechnic , Solicitors Finals at the College of Law , Chester and then joined the in-house Legal Department of Ladbroke Group plc as trainee solicitor . |
| 13 | He missed the 1972 defeat by Neath with a broken ankle , returned for the '73 win over Cardiff and then missed the '74 defeat of Aberavon after needing 20 stitches in a head wound suffered in a charity match a week before the final . |
| 14 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 15 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 16 | There is a rare Brittany breed which is very similar to the Guernsey and possibly formed the ancestral stock . |
| 17 | She returned with her new boyfriend on 17 March and effectively snatched the little boy , leaving the three little girls behind with their father . |
| 18 | Dress in ‘ bad taste ’ was the order of the day at Key Street and out came the psychedelic shirts , hideous trousers , flower power shorts , multi-coloured spotted nightshirts , loud ties and luminous tights , complete with resplendent ankle socks . |
| 19 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 20 | In May 1612 he matriculated at the Academy of Geneva and later attended the Calvinist Academy of Saumur . |
| 21 | From 275 for 4 , Pakistan had added only three runs when Malcolm roared one through Malik and just flicked the off bail to the ground . |
| 22 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 23 | For the next two hours the literary lunchers surged around Hannah and virtually ignored the ostensible star of the show , who had been obliged to immediately follow Hannah and had fallen flat . |
| 24 | Boppard , for example , was a royal residence of the Merovingian Franks and later became a Free Imperial City . |
| 25 | The papal camera or treasury owed much to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ) , who , as a former monk of Cluny , had experience of one of the most advanced organizations of Europe and really established the papal chamber . |
| 26 | Joan accordingly took up the post of companion to the lady Anne and thereafter had no great difficulty in adjusting to a new and privileged life-style . |
| 27 | The church which Kinloch also provided has in its churchyard a flagstaff from which permanently flies the saltire or St Andrew 's cross , floodlit at night , recalling the vision of a white cross against blue sky which supposedly inspired combined Pictish and Scottish forces to victory against the invading King Athelstan and later became the national flag . |
| 28 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
| 29 | She seized her jacket and bag , said a few words to Myra and practically ran the short distance to her flat , visions of Dana lying unconscious from a fall filling her mind . |
| 30 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |