Example sentences of "[vb past] an [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 2 | To start with , nobody seems to have seen the original cylinder , which was supposed to have been recorded when Wilde visited an exhibition in Paris in the year 1900 . |
| 3 | Bill Pedler won some impressive professional competitions in the South of England and Dorothy Campbell , the Ladies ' Champion of Great Britain , France and Canada played an Exhibition at Henley to the great delight of the members . |
| 4 | In 1600–1 he was paid for surveying for New College , while in 1602 he mapped the Cambridgeshire estates of Merton College , and in 1607 he surveyed an estate in Leicestershire for Brasenose College . |
| 5 | On late Saturday afternoons , at the corner the kerb is covered with men who stand with their backs to the light , intently reading in a pink newspaper full of poetical reporting and results ‘ noted an observer of Glasgow in 1901 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke last night received an apology from ITN for claiming that he had been late for yesterday 's wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph . |
| 7 | It rented an office in Knightsbridge for a while and actually bought a house in Tunbridge Wells . |
| 8 | The Fabian women organized an exhibition in Westminster of photographs and reconstructions of the working conditions of women in the sweated trades , with information about their hours and wages . |
| 9 | He apparently showed an interest in Wetherby on Thursday night — pointed him out to Meryl Armitage and asked his name . |
| 10 | He then spent two years in Newfoundland ( 1873–4 ) investigating mineral resources , and joined an expedition to Arabia in 1874 . |
| 11 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 12 | Lombard NatWest recently opened a northern service centre in Leeds , while Venture Factors , a United Bank of Kuwait subsidiary , opened an office in Manchester in April . |
| 13 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , the Iraqi government signed an accord with BNL in Geneva legitimizing the release of all but $750,000,000 of the total loan commitment , but relating it to Iraq 's commitment to employ two-thirds of the credit to buy Italian exports . |
| 14 | Alcatel NV said its equally-owned Alcatel Qualcomm joint venture with Qualcomm Inc signed an accord with Combellga for the sale and service of its satellite truck messaging and tracking system in Russia : Combellga is a joint venture between Russian telephone company Comincom , Belgian telephone operators MGTS and Belgacom and Alcatel 's Belgian unit Alcatel Bell Telephone Co SA . |
| 15 | On March 11 Bhutan signed an agreement with Bangladesh on expanding bilateral trade and economic co-operation . |
| 16 | Sami al-Khatib signed an agreement with Syria on Sept. 1 , which included a security pact between the two countries , as well as plans jointly to combat the drugs trade in eastern Lebanon . |
| 17 | Kapllani signed an agreement in Washington on March 15 restoring diplomatic relations between the United States and Albania , suspended since 1946 . |
| 18 | On June 20 , Prime Minister Tiit Vahi signed an agreement in Moscow with Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Aleksandr Shokhin , including trade and payments clearing and a protocol on the national banks . |
| 19 | The Israeli Transport Minister , Moshe Katsav , and the Soviet Civil Aviation Minister , Boris Panyukov , signed an agreement in Moscow on Aug. 14 providing for direct charter flights of immigrants from the Soviet Union to Israel . |
| 20 | The Finance Ministers of Czechoslovakia and the Russian Federation signed an agreement in Prague on July 13 covering forms of payment for trade . |
| 21 | The latest proposals followed an offer in May of a ceasefire between government forces and the mujaheddin [ see p. 38194 ] . |
| 22 | The Black Prince might have been expected to step into his father 's shoes and fulfil the promise he had shown at Crécy and Poitiers ; but he developed an illness in Spain in 1367 which never entirely left him . |
| 23 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 24 | In 1638 he became an alderman of Shrewsbury under its new royal charter . |
| 25 | He became an expert on Ash in Ash 's most unfashionable days . |
| 26 | It became an argument about Europe as a whole . |
| 27 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 28 | In the autumn of 1355 the Black Prince led an expedition from Bordeaux towards France 's Mediterranean coast . |
| 29 | In retaliation for confiscation of its sugar mills and oil refineries ( 6 August ) , its banks ( 17 September ) and the majority of its larger companies ( 13 October ) , the United States announced an embargo on Cuba on 19 October , covering all goods except non-subsidised foodstuffs and medical supplies ( within a few months even these items were included ) . |
| 30 | Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 . |