Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night in March I visited my old friend at his home in Baker Street . |
| 2 | No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week . |
| 3 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 4 | Kilmarnock manager Jim Fleeting and part-time assistant Jim McSherry have resigned following Saturday 's defeat by Partick which ended their Scottish first division promotion hopes . |
| 5 | Montgomerie was upset after a second-round 77 in Agadir which left him 14 shots behind then leader , Jamie Spence , and criticised the set-up of the tournament . |
| 6 | United managed only one credible scoring effort in the 1-0 defeat away to Aston Villa which left them eight points adrift of Arsenal . |
| 7 | It is entirely probable that Bach himself envisaged his scientific and musically profound opus as a solo keyboard work . |
| 8 | The scheme was officially launched by Earl Spencer who said his own car had twice been broken into in Northampton . |
| 9 | Hear about the Wally who burned his own ear off ? |
| 10 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 11 | Gedge used the other band members as arbitrators of the material , especially Gregory who contributes his own bass lines to songs . |
| 12 | The meeting , convened at the initiative of US President Bush following his appeal in May for an end to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East [ see p. 38217 ] , was reported to have received strong backing from French President Mitterrand who launched his own arms control programme in June [ see p. 38314 ] . |
| 13 | A Sylvie who abhorred her ageing image in the mirror . |
| 14 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 15 | Within weeks , Time Out had an article written by London playwright and football fan Mick Mahoney who got it right when he pointed out that ‘ if Nike brought out a crocodile-skin trainer for £140 , it would be a smash ’ . |
| 16 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 17 | On Saturday she had her first visit from a member of her family her grandson , the Duke of York . |
| 18 | 8 Draw your own graph , using the scale shown , for Mrs Simmon 's journey to the market and back , when one Saturday she changes her usual times and speeds . |
| 19 | During these activities it was Fraser Muirhead who remained my constant friend and companion . |
| 20 | When Kawasaki began operations in their US plant at Nebraska they found it preferable to import components from their subcontractors back in Japan who could even at that distance , guarantee weekly deliveries . |
| 21 | On Saturday they stretched their unbeaten run over the Edinburgh side to seven matches and hardly had to break sweat to do it . |
| 22 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 23 | In Leiden he met his lifelong friend and correspondent , the Dutch poet and diplomat , Constantine Huygens . |
| 24 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 25 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 26 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 27 | Glancing at Galvone he saw something different . |
| 28 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 29 | It is appropriate timing , though doubtless coincidental , that this sale of manuscript and printed Americana should feature a previously unknown autograph leaf by Abraham Lincoln which preserves his earliest formulation of the ‘ house divided ’ doctrine . |
| 30 | I read a review of a biography of Havelock Ellis which described his mystical union with nature . |