Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children from all over the country who 've triumphed over adversity met the Princess of Wales today . |
| 2 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 3 | It was painted purple with the company name in white and made the journey to London twice weekly . |
| 4 | New general manager John Maddock , who was brought in by Swales and made the sacking of Reid virtually his first act , has also been the target of supporters ' anger . |
| 5 | When tracing the various political , constitutional and religious developments which made the age of Walpole very different from the Restoration , we shall discover not one watershed when everything changed at once , but rather a series of discrete chronologies of change . |
| 6 | Ruby Tiger was third as well in her race , but it was User Friendly who became the Princess of Longchamp yesterday — all set to be crowned Queen next year . |
| 7 | The feast of the Passover which called to mind the Exodus , the greatest event in Jewish history when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt . |
| 8 | The festival of Passover celebrated the Exodus , the greatest event in Jewish history , when Moses , sent by God , led the children of Israel out of captivity from Egypt . |
| 9 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 10 | LEADING Tory John Gummer quit the Church of England yesterday over its move to bring in women priests . |
| 11 | There the thinking at Princeton contradicted the thinking at Harvard where Tom Lehrer , the sardonic mathematics lecturer , put the point in a hectically hopeful ditty : . |
| 12 | The Journal of 10 November 1987 described the situation in Smiths thus : |
| 13 | He reported the event to Theo laconically as ‘ another expense ’ . |
| 14 | The Croat feudal lord Petar Kružić gathered together a garrison composed of Croat refugees , who used the base at Klis both to hold the Turks at bay and to engage in marauding and piracy against coastal shipping . |
| 15 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
| 16 | My hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State visited the states in September immediately after we re-established diplomatic relations with them to underline our support . |
| 17 | Later in the year he visited the museum in Istanbul where the fragments were kept and demonstrated their exact fit . |
| 18 | Thirty five Quality Circle leaders and facilitators from the Group visited the forum in Bristol along with pupils from Sandon High School who completed a successful QC project in conjunction with Wedgwood . |
| 19 | The eyes cleared , the relaxed body tightened , and Gerald Seymour-Strachey cast a glance at Greg almost quizzical . |
| 20 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 21 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 22 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 23 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 24 | I recently visited a plant in Mexico where two employees of my company , a Canadian and an Englishman , were operating happily in Spanish , with an entirely Mexican management and labour force . |
| 25 | A speaker at the demonstration compared the situation in Romania unfavourably with the dramatic events unfolding across Eastern Europe and demanded an end to the Ceausescu dictatorship . |
| 26 | Arafat adjourned the meeting in Tunis yesterday after two officials of the 18-member ruling body stormed out , PLO officials said . |
| 27 | When Louis ' verdict condemned the Provisions of Oxford outright , the Montfortians refused to accept the verdict and prepared for war . |
| 28 | The Northern Territory Attorney-General , Daryl Manzie , told the parliament in Darwin yesterday that he was denying the Chamberlains ' request for confidentiality because the claim for legal expenses was almost double the figure given in a submission last year . |
| 29 | THE Government will soon have to tackle the thorny question of the ‘ involuntary repatriation ’ of Vietnamese boat people , Lord Brabazon of Tara , the Foreign Office Minister of State , told the House of Lords yesterday . |
| 30 | The Welsh Secretary , John Redwood , told the House of Commons today that the Welsh Development Agency had tightened up its procedures in the wake of a highly critical report . |