Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Gemma Dallam who had her wedding day on her mind ? |
| 2 | It was said to be the site of the shrine of the goddess Mumba Devi or Maha Amba who gave her name to Bombay . |
| 3 | This year the Autumn meeting of the European Area was held in Athens where , at a simple but moving ceremony , a memorial was unveiled to commemorate all those Greek and RAF aircrew who lost their lives during the battle for Greece . |
| 4 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 5 | Peter Carrington was a major loss , and although I admired the loyalty of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce I thought their resignations unnecessary . |
| 6 | Nearly 70 women responded from 18 countries including Helen Chadwick from Great Britain , several from the USA including Nancy Spero and Yoko Ono who brought her sculpture to the exhibition , Valie Export from Austria , Helen Escobedo from Mexico and Ana Lupas who showed two sculptures from Rumania . |
| 7 | Congratulations to Stanley and Gertie Briggs who celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on August 8th . |
| 8 | When he had started to prepare his notes for this occasion , he was overwhelmed by private memories : St Louis was the place of his birth , and Washington University itself owed its foundation to his grandfather ; and when in the lecture he spoke of the characteristics of a national literature , and American literature in particular , as " a strong local flavour combined with an unconscious universality " it is clear to what locale he belongs . |
| 9 | Today it is the home of John and Hazel Cork who renovated it after years of neglect and a serious fire . |
| 10 | But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs . |
| 11 | ( 2/10 ) Against Huddersfield ( 1–1 9/10 ) and Scunthorpe ( won 2–0 16/10 ) Smithard played well as did Tony Grant who got two and Martin Littlewood who bagged one . |
| 12 | Mayle was joined by Julia Fosker left , manager of the book department of J H Clarke and Company , and Michelle Parkhurst who bought it . |
| 13 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
| 14 | Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend . |
| 15 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 16 | The East Ridge , first climbed in 1938 by Don Bryant and Lud Mahan , is thought to be affected , and the East Face route description is no longer entirely valid either — what with if falling off — which is a disappointment for first ascensionists Peter Farrell , Don Cowie , Vic Walsh and Lyn Crawford who climbed it in 1961 . |
| 17 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was the clash of Third World beach and Dallas skyscraper which triggered my uncharitable scepticism about his extraordinary Utopianism . |
| 19 | Both before and during the events of 1789–92 in France and St Domingue they distinguished their aim of abolition of the trade from the larger question of emancipation of the slaves . |
| 20 | Lawrence and Aldous Huxley who created their own myth of a lost Etruscan Eden . |
| 21 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 22 | It was Reg Hollinshead and Steve Norton who snapped me out of it . |
| 23 | As she drove off to alert her sister , who was a policewoman , she was followed by Lackwinder Randhawa and Ifzal Khan who forced her to stop . |
| 24 | It is impossible for the outsider to appreciate what this meant to a man as proud as Richards , but it was noticeable that in the Test series against Pakistan and New Zealand which followed his form was very ordinary . |
| 25 | Congratulations to Bernard and Clare Shimmin who celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary on 16th . |
| 26 | Erm but Sunday afternoon we said we 'd |