Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 2 | complained how he says I 've got one of his and I had n't got it , it 's Linda that had got it . |
| 3 | The German chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig , gargantuan collector , founder of museums and museum wings and lender to others ( The Art Newspaper No. 23 , December 1992 , p. 12 ) , wrote his thesis in the 1940s on Picasso and has collected him ever since . |
| 4 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 6 | Sean had been bought a replacement knife by Wainfleet and had forgiven him the theft of the first . |
| 7 | It was the advent of Dan that had changed her . |
| 8 | I have discussed this with Simon and have passed it on to Paul Ralph for him to gather the components together for you . |
| 9 | The Wingfields are returning to England and have asked me to go with them . |
| 10 | She rented rooms from a woman whose husband died in Suez and had left her a small income and a house in Whitcher Place . |
| 11 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ If it 's Mr Benedict as has upset you , mum — ’ |
| 13 | Keyhole cockpits are now almost universal but high density polyethylene is still unique to Prijon and has given them the edge in plastic white water kayak design . |
| 14 | It was her silly fears about Silvia that had scared her off . |
| 15 | Stuttgart , beaten by Leeds in the European Cup earlier this season , have closely monitored his progress at Carrow Road and have had him watched on several occasions . |
| 16 | Tesco , on the other hand , had received good service from UK-based Merton and had used them again and again . |
| 17 | ( I have absolutely no connection with Nissan but have found them to be excellent replacement engines in Land Rovers and Range Rovers ) . |
| 18 | The DIANA deputy , Kostis Stefanopoulos , had been a member of ND but had left it to form his own party after a leadership dispute with Mitsotakis in September 1985 [ see p. 34441 ] . |
| 19 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
| 20 | Earlier , Chamorro had resisted pressure to dismiss Ortega after the army admitted on Jan. 2 that four of its officers had stolen 28 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from army stockpiles in October and had shipped them to guerrillas in El Salvador . |
| 21 | A sense of something old , strange and eerie came over me as we passed directly below Benbulbin , that strange grey-green mountain , chief link in the chain that guarded Ulster and has made it the most separate of Irish provinces from the beginning of time . |
| 22 | At the November hearing , the taxpayer said he had written to the building society in May and August and had telephoned them in September but still did not have the required details . |
| 23 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 24 | Under the BES that has succeeded it , UK residents can invest up to £40,000 in one or more UK resident companies . |
| 25 | It is a quite Caribbean Britain that has made her : a Britain at the end of the world which it used to rule . |
| 26 | But for all that , in its basics it was indisputably the same Indian-made version of the 1956 Morris Oxford that had lorded it over the roads of India for some thirty-odd years now . |
| 27 | Many aspects of the post-conciliar debate seemed simply , and not surprisingly , to have passed him by — they seemed to him but the fashionable irrelevancies of a West that had had it rather too good , yet dangerous temptations too . |
| 28 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 29 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 30 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |