Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 2 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 3 | The meeting was organised by Susan McHugh , a mother-of-two , who was sickened by the Warrington incident in which three-year-old Johnathan Ball died while shopping for a Mother 's Day present . |
| 4 | Coleridge fainted when told at a reception in Malta , and tried to get leave to return . |
| 5 | There were three Gifford Tates recorded as auctioned during the year : ‘ The Swanpool at Falmouth signed and dated 1938 … oil on canvas … £17,550 ; The Loire at Amboise … 1963 … £12,610 ; Helford Village , near Falmouth … 1973 … £21,200 … ’ |
| 6 | That was a lesson Stephen learned while playing in a succession of bands in London during the late '70s and , crucially , when he made his entry into the world of professional recording . |
| 7 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 8 | This non-rationalist basis for eliciting support Weber saw as counterposed to the traditional legitimacy of established authority figures , or to the rational — legal authority formalized in bureaucratic systems and based on their superior technical ability . |