Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When President Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 , the soviet leader scoffed at the Shah . |
| 2 | He became director of the Manchester City Art Galleries 1945–52 , and remained there until he succeeded Ellis Waterhouse as director of the National Gallery of Scotland 1952–70 . |
| 3 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 4 | I asked Roger Mortlock from Oxaid why the leaflet was so explicit . |
| 5 | I asked Roger Pawsey of Cants , Mark Mattock , Gareth Fryer , Ken Grapes of the Royal National Rose Society and Robert Harkness , five of the country 's leading rose experts , to name their personal choice of the most highly scented hybrid teas and floribundas . |
| 6 | Sealy died in 1813 , and Eleanor Coade appointed William Croggon as manager . |
| 7 | Khan met King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on Oct. 4 . |
| 8 | En route to taking the waters in western Europe , the tsar met General Nazimov at Vil'na and learned that the gentry of the north-western provinces remained keen on freeing their serfs . |
| 9 | On March 17 , Mamedov appointed Rakhim Gasiyev as Defence Minister . |
| 10 | Diana met Sarah Ferguson through polo , and they became firm friends |
| 11 | He profited initially from exports of English wool through Calais , and he remained heavily involved there : he was mayor of the Staple in 1552 , 1555 ( when he entertained King Philip of Spain in the city ) , and 1558 . |
| 12 | Others exist in the hillfort which became Dolebury Warren outside Bristol , and a fine earthwork example , all of 15 centimetres ( 6 inches ) high , remains on Minchinhampton Common near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale last night re-signed Ian Ironside from Middlesbrough to solve the club 's goalkeeping crisis . |
| 14 | On Jan. 25 Havel appointed Jozef Baksay from Public Against Violence ( PAV ) as Minister of Foreign Trade , a post which had been vacant since the death of Slavomir Stracar in August 1990 [ see p. 37737 ] . |
| 15 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 16 | On a lighter note , if the ‘ body ’ got David Mellor into trouble , we now have a new Minister for Culture ( called National Heritage ) . |
| 17 | One may now reconsider the evidence about the death of Fahreddin Acemi since it is common ground amongst the writers connected with the later tradition that Molla Husrev succeeded Fahreddin Acemi as Mufti . |
| 18 | The World Council of Churches , the association of Protestant and Orthodox Christian churches around the world , elected Konrad Raiser as its new General Secretary on Aug. 24 ; a German national and professor of systematic theology at the Ruhr University in Bochum , Raiser succeeded Emilio Castro of Uruguay . |
| 19 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 20 | ‘ Are we not to help the survivors ? ’ asked Miss Logan in perplexity . |
| 21 | Three days later King Bhumibol effectively legitimized the coup when he formally appointed Gen. Sunthorn as NPKC head . |
| 22 | On Feb. 19 , Chatichai , already aware that the military were plotting against him , appointed Gen. Arthit as Deputy Defence Minister . |
| 23 | On his first day in charge , he sold Andy Ritchie to Motherwell . |
| 24 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 25 | Adams , from Truro , beat Murray Chandler of London in 56 moves to stand level with Sergei Dolmatov of the USSR and Predrag Nikolic of Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | Accordingly , parliament at a joint session suspended King Baudouin on April 4 , and itself signed the abortion bill into law . |
| 27 | On 22 June 168 BC Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated King Perseus of Macedon at the Battle of Pydna . |
| 28 | It was good to spend a few days all together , we visited Falkland Place on Saturday pm , and it was fun to go to St Paul 's and St George 's to worship on Easter day . |
| 29 | Four days after ‘ The Gunners ’ narrowly beat Sheffield Wednesday on Highbury 's main pitch , Islington romped home to a 2-O defeat of Cardiff 's Thornhill team on the astroturf at Highbury 's indoor pitch . |
| 30 | The Chinese Foreign Minister , Qian Qichen , visited Phnom Penh on Feb. 11-12 . |