Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 2 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 4 | Teesside Crown Court heard how blonde Julie Spence agreed to four sex sessions with her husband when they split after ten years of marriage . |
| 5 | The widening of the EEC argued for greater awareness of the European market and the need for both young people and businesses to face the real demands for new skills , greater knowledge of other languages and more mobility in moving throughout other countries . |
| 6 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 7 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The red warning lights of The Sandhopper glowed like boiling blood in the blackness . |
| 10 | Ellis admitted to 22 charges under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act at Liverpool Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 11 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |
| 12 | In Saudi Arabia Baker met with foreign ministers from the six GCC countries and Egypt and Syria , who issued a joint statement expressing their appreciation for Bush 's March 6 speech and its " positive treatment " to the Palestinian question . |
| 13 | Taylor led off eight Hurricanes in V7671 , climbing to 28,000 feet , when many Ju87s were seen below at about 10,000 feet just as the A.A. barrage opened up against them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 16 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 17 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Hun Sen met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and other senior Chinese leaders . |
| 20 | Mr Nightingale beamed with gentle superiority . |
| 21 | Mitch asked with real surprise . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Carver gazed with open admiration at her figure . |
| 24 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 25 | Mr Hamlyn operated for four hours on the man who remained in intensive care . |
| 26 | Once Shamir had rejected this invitation , Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority . |
| 27 | The MP-2 line uses custom 32-bit RISCs rated at 133 MIPS and are configured with as many as 16,000 of the things . |
| 28 | CHART star Dr Alban trained for five years as a dentist — but gave up after a horrific teeth-pulling session . |
| 29 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 30 | In 1988 Cairns reported in abstract form 90 patients treated with an endoprosthesis , in 39 it was a short term measure as they underwent surgery or endoscopic clearance of the duct in a mean of 2.4 months , two ( 5% ) of these patients developed cholangitis . |