Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 At the first rehearsal he played through the Brahms Second and changed nothing .
2 HUW DAVIES ( right ) , Wasps ' stand-off , landed a 47-yard drop goal with the final kick to beat Orrell 13–12 and ruin their chances of winning the Courage rugby union championship .
3 No wonder viewers often get the two Jennys muddled and call me Jenny Seagrove .
4 In 1471 Parr declared for Edward IV and carried his brothers-in-law Christopher Moresby and Thomas Strikland with him .
5 In 1471 Parr declared for Edward IV and carried his brothers-in-law Christopher Moresby and Thomas Strikland with him .
6 See people at San Carlos hungry and given them the rest .
7 Admittedly , even at the end of our period , Thomas More still wrote some major works in Latin , but these were the works of a humanist scholar thinking of an international audience , and he was also prepared to produce an English version of the History of Richard 111 and to write his Confutation of Tyndale in the vernacular .
8 Sun is still tinkering around with the Cypress Semiconductor Corp Ross Systems HyperSparc chip , having apparently not found a home for it yet : in benchmarks , the part outpaced the SuperSparc but by how much remains a mystery ; of course third parties people could buy the chip from Cypress direct and do their own MBus upgrades for Suns .
9 Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else .
10 St Jovite had rounded the final turn in front , but John Reid was on his tail on Dr Devious and forced his horse in front right on the line as Christy Roche was forced to ease off because his mount was hanging .
11 The PLO leadership ( including the PLO executive committee ) met in Tunis on July 20-21 and reiterated its demand for a total freeze on settlement building , calling for imminent elections to a " legislative council " which would have " complete authority " in the occupied territories during the transitional period .
12 What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents .
13 With the aid of a crane ‘ DRD was mounted on the pedestal on July 7 and took-up its new job as a permanent monument to the Norseman .
14 After its first emergency meeting on Aug. 3 the GCC Ministerial Council met again in Jeddah on Aug. 7 and reiterated its call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal .
15 Something knocked his hat over his face , he pushed at the peak , saw the grey 's hindquarters lift elegantly over the gate and out into the light , felt Conker steadying and kicked him on swiftly because there was n't time to stop , he swung his hand back and hit the pony who lifted suddenly , landing with a jolt that made him grunt with effort .
16 The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 .
17 The Red Cross discovered them in Israeli custody in January 1992 and informed their families .
18 At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency .
19 A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds .
20 Havel 's move prompted Meciar to withdraw his party 's support for Havel 's candidacy in the presidential elections on July 3 and to reiterate his party 's intention of getting a new Slovak constitution approved by the Slovak National Council .
21 A Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister , Liu Huaqiu , summoned the US ambassador in Beijing , Stapleton Roy , on Sept. 3 and told him that the US decision " grossly interferes in China 's internal affairs , seriously jeopardizes Sino-US relations and obstructs and undermines the great cause of China 's peaceful reunification " .
22 So I joined the A. F. 5. and hated it .
23 Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision .
24 After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm .
25 She gracefully drew Luch close and kissed her cheek .
26 The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk .
27 The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk .
28 This had immediate commercial implications and the Government suffered an overnight conversion , bringing forward the first Data Protection Bill in February 1983 and reviving it after the election later in the year .
29 Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated .
30 She then married Sir Nigel Seely and joined them .
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