Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once more it was the under-rated offspin of Graeme Hick that commanded most respect from the Indian batsmen . |
| 2 | She was training Sue that said one of the pitfalls |
| 3 | It was Miss Hazelwood that had first told her about her Guardian Angel . |
| 4 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 5 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 6 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 7 | Andrew Kennedy , the Essex Under-17 hockey captain , hit powerfully ( 61 in 64 balls ) , in a drawn match against Berkhamsted and showed some promise as a seamer . |
| 8 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 9 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 10 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 11 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 12 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |
| 13 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 14 | She was a whore fetched from Brussels and paid ten English guineas a day to bed the Prince , and in her opinion she earned every ounce of the precious gold . |
| 15 | Jed looked across at Creed and saw that Creed was already staring at him . |
| 16 | ‘ You may remember , Benjamin , I worked with Falconer and obtained that name ? |
| 17 | The strongest motivation for inscribing multilateralism in the new world order came from the United States and had definite implications for the UK . |
| 18 | Some musicians stayed over in the States and opened Hawaiian music schools , plus there were dozens of mail-order courses — it just dispersed like magic . |
| 19 | Afterwards he went to the United States and obtained three degrees , the most prestigious being a doctorate from Princeton awarded in 1910 . |
| 20 | In Isis is James Annan , who hails from Ayr and attended non-rowing Edinburgh Academy . |
| 21 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 22 | In 1942 , 12,000 bombs dropped by Italian and German aircraft based in Sicily devastated Valletta and killed 3,000 Maltese . |
| 23 | Girke 's surprising companion will be the architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero , now in his seventies , who in the 1940s photographed Taliesin in its early stages for Frank Lloyd Wright and made several portraits of Wright himself . |
| 24 | Having holidayed previously in Sunwing Crete and enjoyed excellent standards of service and accommodation synonymous with the Sunwing name , we decided to try the island of Lanzarote under the same safe banner . |
| 25 | These contests were between the various components of the formal Palestinian movement , Fatah , the DFLP , the PFLP , the Communist Party , and also the Islamic Tendency , which was strong in Hebron and Gaza and enjoyed substantial support elsewhere . |
| 26 | While still a medical student Winnicott discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and decided that psychoanalysis should become a part of his professional life ; thus the year 1923 saw also the beginning of a ten-year training analysis with James Strachey . |
| 27 | Abdel-Shafi mentioned by name the Palestine National Council and the PLO and stressed Palestinian commitment to the " special status and non-exclusive character " of Jerusalem . |
| 28 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 29 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 30 | Police visited the Glen Moriston site on Saturday and charged those present under the 1865 Criminal Trespass Scotland Act . |