Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ossett is mentioned in the Domesday Survey as Osleset , and the town guide explains : ‘ The name has Saxon origin , but a settlement may have existed here when the Romans were using the Via Vicinalis or Accommodation Road which ran between Agbrigg and Dewsbury ’ . |
| 2 | FORMER PRISONER-OF-CONSCIENCE MEETS MEMBERS OF THE HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM GROUP WHO WROTE FOR HIS RELEASE FOR THREE YEARS |
| 3 | His Paisley pattern shirt did n't go too well with the greying Marks & Spencer pullover he wore instead of a jacket , and he knew his fingernails were dirty . |
| 4 | Mark Braley , the former Coopers & Lybrand trainee who attempted to sell confidential BCCI documents while on secondment to the Serious Fraud Office , has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 5 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 6 | Moxon explained : ‘ It was a difficult decision to make but the choice was between Ashley or Simon Kellett who played particularly well at Canterbury when he scored 90 . |
| 7 | Or Gemma Dallam who had her wedding day on her mind ? |
| 8 | ‘ Or Ted Allen who fell down the inspection pit ? ’ |
| 9 | Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it . |
| 10 | It was said to be the site of the shrine of the goddess Mumba Devi or Maha Amba who gave her name to Bombay . |
| 11 | Via G & J Weir he made the transition into rotorcraft and , when he teamed-up with Raoul Hafner , created some of the most imaginative applications of rotary-winged flight . |
| 12 | The Christian view of private property rights is different from the Roman or Justinian view which derived ownership from the concept of natural right . |
| 13 | The Palmer & Pearson file she had brought up with her was forgotten as she swung round and headed for the door . |
| 14 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 15 | The cherry and whites have a lot stronger team out this time and the good news is that Marcus Hannaford who fractured his jaw when he was knocked out against the Saracens is back at scrum half . |
| 16 | No one was worse at making connections about the consequences of his actions than William Madocks who reclaimed the coastal marshes of the Traeth Mawr in North Wales . |
| 17 | Odd , he thought , considering that Van Gogh himself had died mad and despairing in such surroundings . |
| 18 | When I spoke to him that Saturday evening he said he had me in mind but the paper could pay only $15 per week . |
| 19 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 20 | He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties . |
| 21 | The unexpected news , however , was that Edward Balliol himself had here , for some unknown reason , left his army and with only a comparatively small escort of possibly five hundred men , struck off north-eastwards into the Ettrick Forest hills in the direction of St Mary 's Loch and Selkirk . |
| 22 | Is it too much to suppose that Saint Winifred herself moved her relics to the wagon that was bound for Ramsey ? |
| 23 | Now yer know what a cowson that Frank is. 'E told 'er ter piss orf out of it in no uncertain terms an' Maudie told 'im she was gon na send 'er ole man round ter sort 'im out . |
| 24 | Top scorer with twelve enquiries , for no immediately apparent reason , was BP Research , although Martin Rylance who advised on it said that the company covered a huge variety of disciplines . |
| 25 | ‘ So Mr Flowerdew he did pay him double ; and my grandfather said : |
| 26 | ‘ That Mr what's-'is-name who used ter come round 'ere wiv the cockles on Sundays put 'is bad chest down ter the fog . |
| 27 | John Carruthers , one of the solicitors acting for Mr McTear , said the family doctor had declared his client unfit yesterday and that Mr McTear himself felt too ill to proceed . |
| 28 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 29 | When Father Barnes reiterated that he was perfectly all right and that Mrs McBride who did for him was due at ten thirty , he did n't persist . |
| 30 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |