Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final obstacles were removed when the Chinese foreign minister visited Moscow in December 1988 and Shevardnadze visited Peking early the following year ; both sides agreed on the desirability of ‘ Chinese-Soviet relations of a new type ’ . |
| 2 | MELROSE found Peebles quite a handful in this friendly at the Greenyards . |
| 3 | Jenny Simpson gave Moorlake hardly a thought . |
| 4 | The main point is this : Flaubert thought democracy merely a stage in the history of government , and he thought it a typical vanity on our part to assume that it represented the finest , proudest way for men to rule one another . |
| 5 | Defence procurement minister Jonathan Aitken told MPs yesterday the Government hoped the threat of action would deter violations . |
| 6 | AQUASCUTUM held sales only a hairsbreadth short of the corresponding figure at £23.6million in the six months to July 31 , but pre-tax profit slid to £616,000 , from £809,000 . |
| 7 | Do Souza Silva reached Marrakesh only the day before after a 7000K flight from Rio , but he did n't seem jet-lagged . |