Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Netherlands Court of Appeals on July 5 overturned the murder conviction of Gerald Harte and upheld the acquittal of three other Irish people , Sean Hick , Paul Hughes and Donna Maguire . |
| 2 | We beat a retreat from the Queen Victoria Suite and climbed the stairs towards the second floor . |
| 3 | Rafsanjani also met the Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut and concluded an agreement on the sale of Iranian oil and gas to Turkey . |
| 4 | Papcun , Krashen , Terbeek , Remington and Harshman ( 1974 ) presented short Morse code sequences to naive and experienced Morse operators and found a significant right ear advantage in both groups of subjects . |
| 5 | We clambered into the back of a VW truck and drove for about five minutes , then waited outside an apartment block while the guards chatted with a woman . |
| 6 | Doubtless the NME discopolice will now sneer and tell me this is a rubbish record and the version put out by Monty Palago & Wonka Vibe Jambo and remixed by AKU Faction Z in 1969 was much better — they always do . |
| 7 | This was replaced in the fourth-century by a church built by Sant' Ambrogio and dedicated , at a later time , to St Tecla . |
| 8 | Burgon winded his way through the Bangor defence and passed the ball to Minnis whose shot was well saved by Brown . |
| 9 | The Mandale Harrier , now a regular in England 's World Mountain Races team , went off hard from the start , but was hampered by heavy mist on the highest parts of the Northumberland course and finished 66 seconds outside the record . |
| 10 | He even descended to the realms of the unwise and hubristic Kenneth Branagh and declaimed some words of Henry V before Agincourt . |
| 11 | The highlight of the visit was , they say , when they played football for the Wood Group team against chambers at Hazlehead Park and won 4-O . |
| 12 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 13 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 14 | Daisy was still giggling when she got home to Snow Cottage and made the mistake at lunch of telling Perdita that Ricky had read the lesson . |
| 15 | Best known for her incredible chocolate-coated performance as Nicola , the depressive bulimic , in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet ( for which she won the LA Critics award and gained the admiration of pervy chocoholics everywhere ) , the 28-year-old from Rawtenstall is now enjoying massive critical acclaim and popular success on stage and screen . |
| 16 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 17 | Karen , Paula and Drew went to Los Alamos and had the tests . |
| 18 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 19 | Gloucester came back with a penalty and thankfully a matchwinning try which was masterminded by Marcus Hannaford and scored by Paul Ashmead . |
| 20 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 21 | She rummaged in a Gucci handbag and took out a small bottle of aspirins . |
| 22 | He stiffened the sinews , jutted the jaw , summoned the Baker blood and delivered the ‘ once more into the breach dear friends ’ soliloquy with fiery passion . |
| 23 | In reality Jason has done more to keep Britain 's spirits up during these recessionary times than any Whitehall bureaucrat and raised more for charity than our greedy captains of industry . |
| 24 | She read on , about Jesus being born in Bethlehem and about King Herod and did not stop until she came to the line about Rachel weeping for her children . |
| 25 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
| 26 | During this prolonged siege , Desiderius ' son Adelchis raised a second Lombard force and took position before Verona . |
| 27 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 28 | He was educated at Marlborough College and began his engineering apprenticeship in 1893 under Francis Webb at the Crewe locomotive works of the London and North Western Railway . |
| 29 | Forty two-year-old Diane was a medical writer who became obsessed with Dr Murray Brennan and pursued him and his wife in a relentless eight year campaign . |
| 30 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |