Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In moves explicitly intended to encourage a French diplomatic posture more flexible than that of the USA and the UK , the Iraqi authorities ( i ) released nine French hostages on Oct. 1 ; and ( ii ) approved on Oct. 23 the release of all remaining French nationals , 267 of whom arrived in Paris early on Oct. 30 . |
| 32 | Nor did it seem apparent to all that the war fought at sea , the damage which might be inflicted upon enemy vessels and morale , and the consequences which victory at sea could have for those who lived in areas close to coasts , were all part of a wider war which could not be restricted to the fighting on land . |
| 33 | The other group holds those who read at levels well below the level expected of them . |
| 34 | This view was favoured by the new Secretary of State for Health , Kenneth Clarke , who came into office late in the discussions of the working party on the reform of the NHS . |
| 35 | One of the few lawyers in modern times to have reached the Woolsack other than via membership of the House of Commons and ministerial office , Gardiner was a visionary who came to government late in his career , with the result that his idealism had not been exhausted by previous struggles to get things done . |
| 36 | IRISH international Noel Graham , who came to Dublin yesterday in the hope of winning two Irish National championships , goes home today empty-handed . |
| 37 | His father 's father was a Congregational minister who came from Ireland early in life and ministered in various English chapels . |
| 38 | Eddie Leadbeater , the leg spinner who played for Yorkshire just after the war , was my favourite opponent but Johnny Wardle , the old left-arm slow bowler , was a good player too and Ray Illingworth was a clever billiards player . |
| 39 | However , the TCCB itself came under fire yesterday for allowing a similar attack by former England captain David Gower on India 's bowlers to be published in a new book — Gower : The Autobiography . |
| 40 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
| 41 | Senior party members were due to meet the American delegation — who arrived in Ireland today on a fact-finding visit — but were reconsidering after it was revealed that the group will meet Sinn Fein . |
| 42 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 43 | Then , with one end of the skipping-rope in her right hand , she began to edge little by little down the slope . |
| 44 | Peebles , who flew to Belfast yesterday for talks with Linfield officials , had a lone spell in the season just ending with Portadown as they made their unsuccessful bid to win the title . |
| 45 | The setting was so romantically idyllic , with the distant jangle of yacht masts , soft calypso music , the rustle of breeze in the palms , that she thought of Mortimer again with a sick wave of anger . |
| 46 | She looked at Jack now as , sulkily , he fetched her a drink . |
| 47 | And then she went to sleep again until ten , on our bed . |
| 48 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 49 | The old-fashioned English gentleman , who died in hospital yesterday aged 84 , was the master of the understatement . |
| 50 | Der summat like that , and his wife had a baby at the same time as Elaine 's so she our midwife would come and er , so the she kept in touch really of of what they were because they wanted to , I 'll take the place off , they wanted to take it over . |
| 51 | She lay in bed upstairs for nearly three months , but she was too ill to eat . |
| 52 | Yet at the same time she knew that she actually was Martha — she felt like Martha deep within her and had , in fact , completely forgotten why she was being hypnotized and regressed . |
| 53 | His wife Renée , was a cousin of Sigmund Gestetner , who emigrated to England early in the 1930s and made a personal fortune with the copying machine that carried his name . |
| 54 | Finally , thank you to all those readers who wrote from smallholdings all over Britain expressing their support for the John McCarthy campaign . |
| 55 | ‘ You were lucky , ’ she wrote to Molly once in answer to her sister 's repeated urgings that she should come over to Leeds where there were plenty of young Jewish men who were starting businesses and wanted wives to help them . |
| 56 | Lesley-Anne , 38 , who jetted into Heathrow yesterday from Los Angeles with husband Don Fauntleroy , wants to start a family . |
| 57 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 58 | As abolitionist ambitions widened in geographical scope the ability of reformers to effect them declined in respect both to an informed public opinion able to be mobilised and on finding policies which could bring results through the use of practical methods . |
| 59 | There also happens to be a young TV filmmaker ( Jean-Pierre Léaud , the nouvelle vague 's fetish actor ) similar to the one played by Cleavon Little in Yates 's picture . |
| 60 | We arrived at Glastonbury just after dark . |