Example sentences of "a [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 2 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 3 | From more recent times comes the will left by a Yorkshire vicar who viewed his daughter 's adherence to contemporary fashion with mounting horror . |
| 4 | He was admitted on 6 May , and remained in the care of Dr William Battie , a distinguished physician and a Cambridge graduate who had himself held the scholarship which Smart held after him . |
| 5 | Unlike the Illyrians ( Polyb. xxviii.8.9 on the Illyrian dialektos ) , Greeks were intelligible to Macedonians without an interpreter , though a Macedonian commander who wanted his troops to understand him immediately would speak ‘ in Macedonian ’ ( Plut . |
| 6 | He had done no regular television work since appearing as Byron in the mid-Sixties , but a BBC producer who saw him on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British realized that he was perfect for the lead role in a script submitted to him by a new TV comedy writer , Raymond Allen . |
| 7 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 8 | He was born in Kent , to a Durham family which possessed its own coat of arms . |
| 9 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 10 | It came from the football terraces and the council estates of the big cities , and who gives a George Best who started it — it happened and that 's a fact . |
| 11 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 12 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 13 | ‘ He promises the world to get you into the mood , ’ said a Kensington socialite who dated him several times . |
| 14 | John Dalton was the younger son of a Lancashire family who feathered his nest by dubious means while carrying out the office of agent for the Earl of Lancaster as constable of Pickering Castle , a position he lost in 1322 as a result of the unsuccessful rebellion of the earl who was subsequently executed . |
| 15 | He then made his New York début in 1931 as the squalid murderer in Payment Deferred , before accepting a Hollywood offer which took him to California for The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) and his first Nero in The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) . |
| 16 | I am proud of an England shirt he gave me . ’ |
| 17 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 18 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |