Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he moved to the exclusive St James Club as restaurant manager , serving the likes of Lionel Ritchie , Duran Duran , Elizabeth Taylor , Robert Wagner and Jean-Claude van Damme , of Kickboxer film fame . |
| 2 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 3 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 4 | He referred to a mysterious Mr Noble as the man who had recruited Badenoch and brought the drugs north for distribution . |
| 5 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 6 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 7 | The Bosnian Serbs objected to the original Vance-Owen plan for four reasons . |
| 8 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 9 | CNN appealed to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta , on Nov. 9 , but the court upheld Hoeveler 's injunction on the following day . |
| 10 | The dancers all showed a great joy in their work as they danced to the rousing Tchaikovsky score and special mention must go to lead dancers Victoria Westall and Antony Harith . |
| 11 | ‘ What happened to the real Louise Müller ? ’ |
| 12 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 13 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 14 | He walked to a battered Land Rover with the carcass slung over his shoulder , its tongue lolling from the tenderly parted mouth . |
| 15 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 16 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 17 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 18 | The collection belonged to the late George Reynolds , who lived at Chalford Mill . |
| 19 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 20 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 21 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 22 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 23 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 24 | The Korean War shifted the world 's attention to the Far East , led to a massive US rearmament effort once President Truman decided to aid the South , increased support in America for the rabidly anti-Communist views of Senator Joe McCarthy and , at the end of the year , brought Communist China into the war as an implacable new foe of the West . |
| 25 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 26 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 27 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 28 | South Africa got to the extended West Indies tail , starting with wicket-keeper David Williams at number seven , just after tea and encountered little resistance after that . |
| 29 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 30 | She says ; We went to the first Sands meeting . |