Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Devlin expanded on this in the lorry accident case in 1969 : |
| 2 | The idea of eating these things seemed absurd , and yet Pinkie asked for some . |
| 3 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 4 | Joe Foley led for much of the distance , but once Belfast 's Stephen Mely had fought his way clear of a rather physical confrontation with Michael Cullen he closed on Foley and moved ahead with two of the 15 laps left . |
| 5 | He has winged his way across the world in pursuit of his hobby , a mission that has included Venezuela , Thailand , Africa and Israel among others — with Costa Rica planned for this year . |
| 6 | As long as he lived Nizan clung to this fundamentally manichean view of existence . |
| 7 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 8 | But their efforts to collect the money from Germany met with little success ; and when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in 1923 in an attempt to force payment , the German economy collapsed amidst wild inflation ( CORE , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 9 | Ma agreed with that . |
| 10 | The travellers were trying to get into a rock festival at Long Marston airfield near Stratford on Avon planned for this weekend.Roads around the site were blocked by the travellers as they confronted the police for most of the night . |
| 11 | Old Parnham agreed to that . ’ |
| 12 | Twentieth Century-Fox agreed to this but made Crawford sign a legal document making him personally responsible for any resulting injury or loss of life . |
| 13 | Being an American , Hauser referred to all Socialists as liberals . |
| 14 | The price of developed building land in Germany rose by more than one-third between 1970 and 1972 . |
| 15 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 16 | At various times Keynes operated on all three levels , and moved easily from one to another . |
| 17 | Branson made of this what he could . |
| 18 | Gorbachev expanded upon this vision of a ‘ qualitatively new state of society ’ in an address to senior party functionaries in July 1989 . |
| 19 | Malpass beamed at that . |
| 20 | Kefalov bulged like some fossil brain adorned with innumerable ridges . |
| 21 | What Scott lacked above all , however , was any visible grasp of the reports and councils , White Papers and Green Papers , which have reconnoitred this terrain before and illuminated the thorny issues at the heart of science policy . |
| 22 | The invention of Ruritania led to many descendants , all declaring their ancestry in the ‘ a ’ suffix , from Buchan 's Evallonia and George Birmingham 's Lystra to countries invented for young readers like Frances Hodgson Burnett 's Samavia , Noel Streatfeild 's Livia , Serraillier 's Silvania , Adnan Alington 's Rumelia and Harnet Graham 's Zoraya . |
| 23 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 24 | The form which this idea normally took , that of a federation of States ruled by some central body which included representatives of all of them , was probably encouraged by the great political and economic success achieved in the seventeenth century by the new federation of the United Provinces . |
| 25 | In the statement Freud made about this activity , he sometimes avoided the errors of his own account of the scientific nature of psychoanalysis . |
| 26 | Nabiyev agreed to all the US proposals for weapon control , specifically to restrictions on sales of arms components , and gave assurances that Tajikistan would not sell uranium for the use of weapons production . |
| 27 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 28 | Influential in child psychiatry for over thirty years , Kahn moved into that field from the excellent springboard of general practice . |
| 29 | Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it . |
| 30 | For his part Humphrys maintained with some justice that any binding provision would not be compatible with Iraq 's future independent status . |