Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [coord] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 2 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 3 | He was educated at Marlborough College and began his engineering apprenticeship in 1893 under Francis Webb at the Crewe locomotive works of the London and North Western Railway . |
| 4 | Forty two-year-old Diane was a medical writer who became obsessed with Dr Murray Brennan and pursued him and his wife in a relentless eight year campaign . |
| 5 | As a result Denis hit old Jock Lennox by accident , who fell on top of Pat Kelly and spilled his drink . |
| 6 | Congratulations to the four successful candidates in the 1982 examination , Kay Evans welcomed the only one able to be present at this training day , Brenda Morgan , from the Surrey Course and presented her certificate . |
| 7 | I was more than mildly impressed with Miss Semmens and decided I would certainly have to see her again — and soon . |
| 8 | He said he had given her mother one of his running tops as a present for Miss Bonham-Carter but demanded it back after he and the actress had a ‘ blazing row ’ . |
| 9 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 10 | Sure enough he won the lead , drifted up the HVS crux and vouched it a classic . |
| 11 | On the contrary , it proved , beyond any doubt , that the Templars were familiar with the Atbash Cipher and employed it in their own obscure , heterodox rites . |
| 12 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 13 | TV , advertising and movie moguls around the world wanted a slice of the Kylie action and sent her their offers on paper . |
| 14 | In 1861 another private company founded the Great Northern Cemetery at Colney Hatch and served it by rail from King 's Cross . |
| 15 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 16 | Anne and Heywood Hill , of the bookshop in Curzon Street , lived at number 10 Warwick Avenue and told them that the lease next door was for sale . |
| 17 | She glanced at Miss Florence and shook her head , saying , ‘ I 've … |
| 18 | I sped to the Jonah window and pressed my forehead to the greenhill . |
| 19 | Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood . |
| 20 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 21 | We made the locks at Gairlochy on Saturday evening and found it no great hardship to lay there throughout the following Sunday . |
| 22 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 23 | Reagan fired a handful of top EPA officials and replaced them with five fresh-faced outsiders . |
| 24 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 25 | During Italia '90 , Taylor saw how player power influenced Bobby Robson and wanted none of that . |
| 26 | so I went in to pull them out , then I rang her rang her wee fella , she came round on Friday night and collected them sorry she collected them and she could n't get them back to , till the Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 27 | I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number . |
| 28 | Ambulance men stemmed the flow of blood from 19-year-old David Mellor and packed his arm in cool bags before taking him to Warrington hospital . |
| 29 | Nicholas and Robin Higgs had approached Neil McEvoy and suggested he break into David Jamison 's room at the house they shared in Kensington Road , Middlesbrough , to teach him a lesson . |
| 30 | ( He was clearly influenced by Andrea Gabrieli and influenced him in turn , as he did Giovanni who served under him in the Munich choir from c. 1575 to 1579 . ) |