Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever your kind of break , the abundance of things to see and do makes Brighton & Hove the right place to head for any time of year . |
| 2 | You went to Suffolk by the A12 through Chelmsford or took the country route . |
| 3 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 4 | THE role of the church in helping to topple the Communist order in Poland and East Germany , compounded by the fact that it was the fate of a Protestant clergyman in Timisoara that triggered the unrest in Romania , has raised the prospect of Romanian churches becoming a focus of political resistance . |
| 5 | It was the United States ' adamant policy with respect to the PLO that made the latter 's relations with Moscow so robust . |
| 6 | And following touchdowns by Denis Betts and Shaun Edwards it was the dramatic try-scoring thrust of Martin Offiah that brought the 8,261 crowd to their feet . |
| 7 | Reuter adds from Washington : President George Bush yesterday angrily denounced followers of Gen Aoun and said a partition of Lebanon would be totally unacceptable to the world community . |
| 8 | McAllister placed the tray on the table before Dr Neil and performed the parlourmaid 's traditional bob after she had done so . |
| 9 | ‘ Land of limitless possibilities ’ turns out in strength for Mr Major The Prime Minister flew in to Teesside Airport on Tuesday and said the possibilities for the North-East were almost limitless . |
| 10 | A DAYTIME burglar struck a home in Four Marks on Tuesday and stole a quantity of jewellery . |
| 11 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 12 | He crossed over to Corbett and put a hand on his shoulder . |
| 13 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 14 | In the south the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) trebled its vote to 17 per cent in Reggio Calabria and became the city 's second-largest party , proposing a coalition with the anti-Mafia Network ( La Rete ) which took 8.2 per cent , with the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party ) and with the hardline Marxist Communist Refoundation Party to challenge the traditional parties . |
| 15 | In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey . |
| 16 | Harriet glanced past Meredith and raised the hand holding the rope halter in salute to someone unseen behind her . |
| 17 | His public interests were religion , politics and law ’ ; leading to ‘ In 1640 , on Thursday December the 28th , this Alexander Brodie was one of a party which included my ancestor , the Laird of Innes , that came to the grand old cathedral of Elgin and destroyed every object in it . ’ |
| 18 | Stukeley also began enthusiastically landscaping the garden of his house in Barn Hill and devised a formal garden on a concentric circular layout which could have been based on his Stonehenge plan ( see drawing ) . |
| 19 | Then , as the congregation grew , she bought land off Edge Hill and had a fine new church built in 1887 . |
| 20 | Kelly sat in the jockeys ' stand at Sandown and gave a quiet laugh . |
| 21 | Ally Donaldson kicked two penalty goals for Currie and converted a late try by Dean Mack . |
| 22 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 23 | The Committee censured Mr Soper and imposed a fine of £250 . |
| 24 | He attended two performances of Figaro and gave a concert at the opera house , which included the première of a new symphony he had written specially ( K.504 , known afterwards as the ‘ Prague ’ ) . |
| 25 | Kylie was spotted by casting director Alan Hardy and snatched the role of Carla , the little Dutch girl , from under Dannii 's nose . |
| 26 | Hemming says that Brihtheah 's were made because he was from Berkshire and had no relatives in Worcestershire , and in Edward the Confessor 's time Bishop Hermann complained that nobody could hold the see of Ramsbury without the help of kinsmen . |
| 27 | The most famous of these was in September 1233 , when Siward and several score raiders rode across England into Berkshire and pillaged a manor of Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | HANK MARVIN Born Brian Rankin in Newcastle , young Hank came third in a talent competition in 1958 with his band the Railroaders and later that year he teamed up with Cliff Richard and formed the Shadows . |
| 29 | Convinced that the treaty would undercut German sovereignty by taking away powers from the German parliament , he left Brussels and filed a sweeping complaint claiming that Maastricht damages constitutional guarantees of individual rights and democratic procedure . |
| 30 | Unable to cope any longer with his conditions of work , he moved abruptly to Brussels and took a room in a cheap hotel at 72 Boulevard du Midi . |