Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 2 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 3 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |
| 4 | No doubt Antimenides fought in Palestine for the Babylonians , but his brother Alcaeus was not interested in specifying against whom he fought . |
| 5 | Yes , if Olga lived in Paris , she too would almost certainly choose Passy . |
| 6 | " One year ago the people of Panama lived in fear , under the thumb of a dictator . |
| 7 | Mitch recovered from surprise and dived into the leather shoulder-bag that contained his lenses . |
| 8 | Over his coffee , Pascoe toyed with permutations of possibilities in which Felstead or Evans had written the letter ( all the letters ? ) , in which Mary Connon had a lover ( someone at the Club ? |
| 9 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 10 | Defence Minister Lassane Ouangraoua revealed on Jan. 8 that an army non-commissioned officer had plotted to overthrow the government on Dec. 28 . |
| 11 | During the 1920s there had been a " Left " opposition to MacDonald centred around Lansburys Weekly , an unofficial Labour paper , and later around the Independent Labour Party from which MacDonald eventually resigned . |
| 12 | Ruth was beginning to feel chillingly alone , as Fincara whispered into Adam 's ears and he knelt there motionless . |
| 13 | President Didier Ratsiraka announced on July 28 that he had dismissed his government and would organize a referendum on a new constitution before the end of the year . |
| 14 | Apgood skimmed through Brigitte Schickert 's certificate , her husband 's name , parents ' names , place and date of birth , and the address of the Leistritz farmhouse , Dornhausen . |
| 15 | Horsley asked for £500,000 . |
| 16 | West Germany agreed on Sept. 15 , 1989 , to convert $418,500,000 of official debt into grants , on condition that Kenya use the local currency equivalent for environmental improvement and conservation projects . |
| 17 | After talks with the IMF Vieira announced on April 12 , 1990 , a series of measures to control expenditure in the public sector and to centralize tax collection . |
| 18 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 19 | Taylor lived on Martha 's Vineyard for most of his life . |
| 20 | NIMBUS ( ‘ PRIMA VOCE ’ ) — Nimbus 's ‘ Prima Voce ’ series now numbers some 27 single CDs , two three-CD sets devoted to ‘ Tenors ’ and ‘ Divas ’ plus Charpentier 's Louise and the historic first complete recording of Die Zauberflöte made by Beecham in Berlin in 1937 . |
| 21 | A district judge in San Francisco ruled on Oct. 4 , 1989 , that women employed by the state of California were not victims of sexual discrimination . |
| 22 | Former Prime Minister Maitrika Prasad Koirala announced on Feb. 19 the formation of a new political party , Rashtriya Janata Parishad , under his chairmanship , which would work to provide a democratic alternative to the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 23 | England keeper David Seaman sold by Leeds and went on to make his name in a big way with the Gunners |
| 24 | Jenkins admitted to ignorance , but covered himself by saying that the selectors did not know the team either . |
| 25 | The Educational priority Areas were , indeed , constituted and Crosland agreed with Maurice Kogan that he had ‘ legitimised the radical sociology of the 1950 's and 1960's ’ . |
| 26 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 27 | Dog CC and Best in Show went to Kenpshot Bandit owned by Robert Bryan . |
| 28 | On July 22 Baker met with President Mubarak of Egypt in Cairo and on July 23 he was in Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad , and in the Bekaa valley , Lebanon , for talks with Lebanese President Elias Hrawi . |
| 29 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 30 | Jazz asked in wonder . |