Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Until 1986 Andy caddied for several players , including Gary Player and Bernhard Langer .
2 In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault .
3 The classic Levi cut with zippered fly is a best seller .
4 But this Saturday differed from other Saturdays : it was exactly five years since her father had died .
5 Ian Brown , secretary of Edinburgh 's Princes Street Traders Association , reported that sales were better this January compared with last year .
6 When this was sold to Dorman , Long & Co. in 1903 Gilchrist retired from active work in metallurgy .
7 British Telecom responded with great promptness and had two telephone lines and a fax line installed on Monday .
8 The German SDS marched in neat formation — provoking racist jokes mingled with admiration — and the crowd was so large that the police lines proved incapable of resisting it .
9 Pretreatment parameters showed that high PTHrP correlated with high cAMP ( p<0.001 ) ; TmCa:Na correlated with TmP ( p=0.01 ) , low serum phosphate correlated with high PTHrP ( p=0.01 ) , and low TmP ( p<0.001 ) .
10 When Scottish Amicable moved to 35 St Vincent Place in 1859 , the plaque was removed .
11 Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years .
12 And the damp Meadows shone with pearly Dew ;
13 1 slimmers ' cup-a-soup , plus 2 brown Ryvitas spread with 1 dessertspoon Branston pickle and topped with 2 oz ( 50g ) chicken or turkey roll , plus 4oz ( 100g ) fresh fruit OR 4 brown Ryvitas spread with 4oz ( 100g ) low fat cottage cheese and topped with salad , plus a banana
14 3 brown Ryvitas spread with 3 oz ( 75g ) pilchards in tomato sauce , topped with sliced tomato , plus a banana OR 8oz ( 200g ) cottage cheese with a chopped pear , apple and 2 sticks celery , served on a bed of lettuce , plus tomatoes and cucumber
15 By all accounts relations between the two Zuwaya sections were extremely tense ; some Mannaia lived in continual expectation of violence .
16 Drought in the 1970s and again in 1983 brought four-wheel-drive Toyotas emblazoned with aid-agency logos but aid failed to alleviate the chronic poverty faced by the peasants who make up 90 per cent of the population .
17 CRISIS-CLUB Leeds plunged into deeper trouble yesterday after their first-ever defeat against their Yorkshire rivals .
18 It remains to be seen whether the order rate is significant enough to justify the volume potential , even for a chip MIPS calls the first 100 SPECmark optimised for personal computers .
19 The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) .
20 Conversely , is body size less important in male Weddells compared to other species because they defend underwater territories where success depends on manoeuvrability and because females are widely dispersed ?
21 Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium .
22 At least , that much Annie gathered from other discussions and the political writing which flourished at the time .
23 Encouraged by these circumstances , the disorders of early June continued for some days .
24 The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed .
25 Departing the airfield to carry out some initial general handling , the little Aeronca cruised at 2150 rpm at around 65kts .
26 His glance slid over to them , taking in the horrified Katarina surrounded by malicious-looking women .
27 Day One we talked a lot about equipment and its use ; on the second day about how to handle the birds , and on Day Three Brian went into more detail about care and treatment .
28 In autumn 1940 Japan moved into northern French Indo-China in an attempt to restrict supplies to the Chinese , and as a preliminary to creating a Japanese-controlled zone in Southeast Asia .
29 The younger Thomas rose through various appointments to become in 1638 groom of the bedchamber to Prince Charles , and Henry became the queen 's master of the horse .
30 All Nicandra remembered about that race meeting was her pure delight at getting the longest possible odds on Lal 's runner and Lal buying a bottle of champagne after her race , the three of them were celebrating when she remembered her tryst with Robert .
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