Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the stink it raised in some quarters , The Krays made perfect sense as a symptom of the curious British habit of turning petty villains into national folk heroes . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Bob Hawke made sweeping changes in his Cabinet , appointed on April 3 following the re-election by a narrow margin of his Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) government on March 23 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately he made the mistake of undoing his straps before force-landing in the water and was thrown forward , breaking his nose on the remnants of the windscreen as one of the Messerschmitts passed low overhead . |
| 4 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | Then Harvey produced two items from his own pocket . |
| 6 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 7 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 8 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 9 | Three Stourbridge men shared a rent of £2 , while in Chadswith Yeld , Bromsgrove , Edmund Harwell divided 2 marks yearly with ‘ his co-parcenor ’ . |
| 10 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 11 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 12 | It was the day Hitler tore into Belgium and the Netherlands , and the day that Winston Churchill became Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Marti made 103 m.p.h. this time and Robinson just failed to beat it at 102 m.p.h. , leaving the large crowd breathless ! |
| 14 | President Joao Bernardo Vieira announced structural Cabinet changes on March 9 , 1990 , aimed at improving government efficiency . |
| 15 | The Queen Victoria sold cloudy beer , bad gin and passable whisky , but the main source of its revenue — especially when the docks were quiet — came from the rent it received from its rooms . |
| 16 | The truth would never lose its power to wound , but Maria lacked any inclination to retaliate , aware that the same truth must be hurting Luke just as deeply , albeit in an entirely different way . |
| 17 | Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother . |
| 18 | Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries . |
| 19 | Frau Nordern made another foray . |
| 20 | HOLDING a single red rose and brushing tears from her pale cheeks , little Rebecca Leyland led 1,000 mourners behind her mother 's coffin yesterday . |
| 21 | Arthur Benjamin and Ira Dilworth became close friends , and I was fortunate to be associated with both . |
| 22 | Ellis became chief whip in March 1894 when the fifth Earl of Rosebery succeeded Gladstone as prime minister , and found life exceptionally difficult since the Liberals had only the narrowest of majorities . |
| 23 | TV newsreader Fiona Armstrong met new colleague Michael Wilson yesterday — and talked about going to bed . |
| 24 | Constance had assumed that , since she and Scarlet lived next door to each other , they would constantly be in and out of each other 's houses and behaved accordingly , which had suited Scarlet very well . |
| 25 | Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ . |
| 26 | The London Borough of Greenwich sought judicial review of a Government leaflet distributed to every household in England which was explanatory of the community charge or poll tax . |
| 27 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 28 | In a whirlwind tour of the region Mr Baker met Tory candidates in Hexham , Wansbeck , Blyth , four from the Newcastle constituencies , Wallsend , Tynemouth , Darlington , Stockton South and Langbaurgh . |
| 29 | But Gary made innumerable professions of faith from childhood onwards . |
| 30 | A. MacDougall made 4183 gallons at Ardbeg and John Johnston 4178 at Lagavullin . |