Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of subsequent , apparently conciliatory , gestures reported on Dec. 16 , Kurdish leaders agreed to appoint an inquiry into the alleged massacre of 60 Iraqi soldiers in October [ see p. 38548 ] after the government announced that it had lifted restrictions on the acquisition of property by Kurds in the oil-producing town of Kirkuk and issued a decree exempting Kurds from swearing allegiance to the ruling Ba'ath Party . |
| 2 | She took out a bottle of Glenfiddich and poured a wine-glassful . |
| 3 | It was an ordinary Bobby on foot patrol who strolled out in front of Armstrong and put a hand on the roof after indicating to me to lower my window . |
| 4 | I have nothing against yesterday 's guitar heroes , indeed it was the Iommi article that caused me to buy your magazine again , but whoever it was in your office who opened up a copy of NME and stuck a pin in it should be encouraged to do so again . |
| 5 | In the evenings from our balcony we watched the setting sun slant through the columns of the Temple of Luxor and lay a golden radial across the floor of the main court . |
| 6 | She liked St Etheldreda , who was a Virgin Queen , although she was twice married — she became Abbess of Ely and founded a great House , and was buried in the odour of sanctity — ’ |
| 7 | He attended two performances of Figaro and gave a concert at the opera house , which included the première of a new symphony he had written specially ( K.504 , known afterwards as the ‘ Prague ’ ) . |
| 8 | He was obsessed with the historic importance of Buckinghamshire and wrote a history of the county . |
| 9 | We went to the remotest part of Scotland and had a gorgeous peaceful time . |
| 10 | SHANE McINTOSH , brother of Dale , the Scotland ‘ B ’ no.8 , has joined West of Scotland and staked a regular first-team place at centre . |
| 11 | In Britain , Hewett C. Watson ( 1804–81 ) worked on the variation of the flora with altitude in the Highlands of Scotland and pioneered a national census of plants , which allowed the country to be divided into a number of botanical provinces . |
| 12 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 13 | The Irish Acts of Union did not prohibit the creation of new peers of Ireland but imposed a limit of 100 at any given time . |
| 14 | From nineteen seventy three to nineteen ninety two he was Chairman of the Charities Committee of the Yacht Clubs of Weymouth and played a leading part in organizing forty eight championships including fourteen R Y A Weymouth olympic weeks as well as twelve world and European championships . |
| 15 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 16 | He called on the Latin Patriarch of Antioch and had a brief , one-sided exchange . |
| 17 | I met him last year , when I was coming out of Bazyliszek and needed a ride . |
| 18 | But there was an heir , and the following year , the twenty-one year old prince , already Charles II to his followers , left the safety of Holland and made a desperate attempt to regain the throne . |
| 19 | There was something about this part of France that made a powerful appeal to her imagination and emotions . |
| 20 | ‘ I left school and went to the South of France and spent a week sleeping on an electricity generator . |
| 21 | He organised the defence of Altdorf and raised a new army from amongst the beleaguered citizens . |
| 22 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 23 | ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock . |
| 24 | Then he thought of Benedicta and felt a twinge of doubt . |