Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Royals flocked to Edina Ronay , along with customers from the world of showbusiness such as Marlon Brando who commissioned them to knit a sweater . |
| 2 | In March the EPRDF began an advance through Shoa province which took it to within striking distance of Addis Ababa on several occasions by mid-year . |
| 3 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 4 | I 'm not bragging , but by the time I really started to look for Carol Flaxman I knew it would be a matter of hours rather than days . |
| 5 | Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has paid tribute to the staff of RAF Lyneham who gave him help and support after his release . |
| 6 | French President François Mitterrand paid his first official visit to the new German states on Sept. 18-20 at the invitation of von Weizsäcker who accompanied him . |
| 7 | In spite of his wife 's gentleness and her liking for Anglo-Norman culture , Malcolm Canmore continued to terrorize northern England , especially after the death of William I. He met his end at Alnwick when facing the troops of William Rufus . |
| 8 | New to the Sinn Fein quarter are Mary Nelis and Bernie Bradley in the place of Barney McFadden who lost his seat and Dodie McGuinness who did not seek re-election . |
| 9 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 10 | Our National President , Steve Gauld , closed the Convention and we offered our thanks and gratitude to all those who had made the weekend such a success , to Tim Cain who kept all the sessions to time ; to the exhibitors who supported us so well ; to all the members and outside speakers who made presentations ; to the staff of Keele University who served us so well in all areas ; and to Joe Bennett who organised the whole thing , sorted out the speakers , took our bookings and generally made sure it all went well . |
| 11 | Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle . |
| 12 | The Wessex Regional Transfusion Centre wishes to thank those members of the staff of AEA Technology who gave their blood for the benefit of others on Tuesday , 12 and Wednesday , 13 January 1993 . |
| 13 | Gay film making has arrived in Cork in earnest , the first Irish Lesbian and Gay Film Festival being afforded a regal launch in the person of Nell McCafferty who saw it as ‘ a further exploration of our sexuality ’ with the attendant attraction of ‘ adding to the gaiety of the nation ’ . |
| 14 | Apart from rifling the chests of the Excise offices in the towns they had occupied , the Scots had while in England behaved with remarkable correctness , but now they were increasingly described as thieves and ruffians , an attitude epitomised by the verses written about a group of Yorkshire sportsmen who formed themselves into a unit of amateur warriors known as ‘ The Royal Hunters ’ : |
| 15 | When poor Col. Griffin was laughed at for suggesting that Baptists establish a University in England , the laughter did not come from the descendants of Matthew Arnold who saw them as psalm-singing greengrocers , but from his fellow Baptists . |
| 16 | Next , Helen was put in the capable hands of Daniel Hersheson who reshaped her hair . |
| 17 | In years gone by the club chairman brought a certain local charm to the game ; there was Jan Stepek of Hamilton Accies who made his fortune from renting TV sets to Motherwell 's seething masses , Hal Stewart who forced Morton to play in day-glo orange , and Old Man Dayell , the west-coast food magnate whose personal fortune was amassed selling half-time mutton pies then partially squandered trying to turn Airdrie into AC Milan . |
| 18 | The crux of the rows centred around a belief that Sydney Newman , promoted from ITV into a very senior position and given virtual carte blanche to reshape the BBC 's drama output , was carrying out his task by bringing in other friends and associates from ITV in place of BBC staff who felt they could equally rise to the challenges . |
| 19 | It was at Mroueh 's clinic that Waite met a group of Hezbollah members who asked him to go with them in November . |
| 20 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 21 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 22 | Laughton came from Scarborough and while his best known film role was probably The Hunchback of Notre Dame he won his Oscar in 1932–33 for The Private Life of Henry VIII . |
| 23 | Ten years of Reagan armament which allowed it to , also bankrupted it ; without the USSR as enemy , not even the United States will permanently keep up this level , and if they wanted to , they could no longer afford it . |
| 24 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 25 | In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned . |
| 26 | I read a review of a biography of Havelock Ellis which described his mystical union with nature . |
| 27 | That it does so with such success is partly due to the rich quality of the artificial flowers used and partly to the skill of Prue Hooper who made it . |
| 28 | I dedicate this article to the memory of Eric Mosley who helped me so much in the early days of my research , to George Wyndham Parker for his encouragement , and to Jack Alcock , without whom this article would never have been possible , my only wish is that I could have met him in person . |
| 29 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 30 | The new-look team again sees the inclusion of Anne Hemming who made her debut against Scotland and coach Anne Anderson who is keeping the formula the same tomorrow . |