Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 2 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 3 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 4 | ‘ Luce agreed to marry me and — ’ |
| 5 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |
| 6 | To start with , Alison planned to wear a white evening dress . |
| 7 | Three rounds of voting in February and March failed to elect any of the candidates [ see p. 37264 ] , so that the task fell to the new parliament which emerged from the April 8 general election . |
| 8 | A phase of acute unemployment is likely to have supervened ; it was certainly alleged to be rife by 1525 when it was put forward as the precipitant of the riots against the levying of the Amicable Grant — the tax of one-sixth on the valuations of 1522 by which Wolsey sought to make good the disappointing yield of the subsidy — albeit attributed to the dislocation of business caused by the severity of taxation . |
| 9 | Watkins Glen was a race Hunt and McLaren expected to win , Japan was an unknown . |
| 10 | Leeds Crown Court was hearing a statement about the reaction of a porter who found her body when Robin Pask asked to see a doctor . |
| 11 | In an attempt to rally domestic support and to placate the US government ( upon which his regime was heavily dependent ) , Marcos agreed to hold a presidential election in February 1986 . |
| 12 | In an attempt to rally domestic support and to placate the United States government ( upon which his regime was heavily dependent ) , Marcos agreed to hold a Presidential election in February 1986 . |
| 13 | As we went to press , the OMG expected to have in hand eight submissions representing some 25 companies . |
| 14 | Ben got busted so Pru took the kids to Glasgow to live with her Mum . |
| 15 | Germany agreed to finance the return of the toxic chemicals , supplied by the former East Germany as agricultural aid , after Greenpeace threatened to return the waste itself and invoice the German government [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 16 | At a four nation summit in Madrid , Germany agreed to delay a final decision on the fighter until November . |
| 17 | The situation of refugees worsened as Croatia refused to allow in those fleeing from Jacje and Travnik , leaving some 6,000 in camps at the frontier ; Germany agreed to take 1,000 on Nov. 11 and others were accepted by Spain and Austria . |
| 18 | Germany agreed to suspend its claims for the payment of debts incurred by the former Soviet Union to former East Germany until the year 2000 , while in exchange Russia abandoned all claims for compensation for Soviet military property and installations in former East Germany . |
| 19 | On Nov. 8 Poland and Germany agreed to de-restrict the use of territorial waters bordering the two countries and to ease restrictions on cross-border road traffic . |
| 20 | Both Japan and Germany agreed to increase their financial assistance to help defray the costs of the Gulf war . |
| 21 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 22 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 15 reported that the European Communities ( EC ) had also allocated a grant of ECU150,000,000 ( about US$207,000,000 ) to Jordan as one of the countries most affected by the Gulf War , and during a visit by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher on Feb. 14 [ see p. 37989 ] Germany agreed to provide further aid . |
| 23 | Germany agreed to provide DM 2.1 million to finance the return of the waste . |
| 24 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 25 | As Akbar and Tundrish opened fire with bolts , Yeremi lunged to drag the impetuous , or hallucinating , fool back . |
| 26 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 27 | Tait and Stewart sought to show not the truth of Christianity , but its compatibility with modern science , and the narrowness of those who contented themselves with what they called ‘ how ’ questions and never with ‘ why ’ . |
| 28 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 29 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |
| 30 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |