Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity . |
| 2 | A list of the 14 nuns who demonstrated in March this year gives their ages between 18 and 32 , with an average of 23 . |
| 3 | I draw the Government 's attention to the Home Office standing conference on crime prevention , chaired by James Morgan , which reported in August this year . |
| 4 | It was not until they moved to Brisbane that life became settled enough for a house to hold much significance . |
| 5 | Somewhere at the back of her mind , it occurred to Bernice that Bishop was giving her an awful lot of rope . |
| 6 | The idea here is similar to that used by Tanberg many years before , namely to fill a beaker with water and pass an electric current through it by connecting a battery to two terminals that are dipped into the liquid . |
| 7 | The invitation to become deputy Lieutenant came in June this year , he still does n't know why . |
| 8 | Enoch also had an apprentice , George Watson ( 20 ) , who came from Wentworth several miles to the east . |
| 9 | As a roving correspondent he came to Europe that year , and several large conferences were covered by him . |
| 10 | Perhaps since she came to London many men had kissed her . |
| 11 | Then Marius drove to Streatley that night to read the scripts on his own . ’ |
| 12 | Naylor drove to Parkwood that night . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to Alice that Jasper hardly saw her as he went off . |
| 14 | WOBBLY Thursday in fact came on Tuesday this time . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried the same approach when we played at Runcorn this season … and we lost . |
| 16 | Tajan predicted in November that Ader Tajan would make a total of FFr310–330 million in 1992 , less than the FFr350 million he had hoped for but enough to cover annual wage costs of FFr13 million . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a long story , which Ellis extracted from Gooseneck this morning . |
| 18 | Both happened in January this year . |
| 19 | It was in Xinjiang that Muslims rebelled in March this year |
| 20 | ‘ He telephoned from Austria this morning . |
| 21 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 22 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
| 23 | He arrived in Edinburgh that evening and was ferried by the organizer to his first reading at the university . |
| 24 | The journey was slow and subject to inexplicable stops in mid-country ; although the war in Europe was over , the carriages were still full of men in uniform ; there were long queues for the tea trolleys at York and Grantham but Constance arrived in London that evening with her excitement undimmed . |
| 25 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 26 | He arrived in London some months later with letters of introduction to both actors and physicians . |
| 27 | The first stage of the British operation , codenamed Cheshire , left on schedule and arrived in Zagreb this afternoon . |
| 28 | Transvaal arrived in Gloucestershire this afternoon . |
| 29 | American-backed Business Superstore opened in April this year . |
| 30 | When the film opened in America this summer he talked to the press about Brando . |