Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 2 | Consider the validity of the agreement between A and B. Would your answer be different if A asked for £3,000 instead of £1,000 ? |
| 3 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 4 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 5 | Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from . |
| 6 | and erm the reorganizing of erm secondary education which all stemmed of course really from the nineteen forty four Act |
| 7 | It 's an old injury which I sustained against Widnes earlier in the season . ’ |
| 8 | Totten , peeved at being dropped to the bench , bounced into action late on too to set up the masterpiece . |
| 9 | Maxim turned his red-rimmed eyes at George winced with pain even at the feeble car light and shut them again . |
| 10 | The decree , which entered into force later in June , entitled Albanian citizens in principle to a passport for travelling abroad and re-entering the country , and made it possible for visitors to obtain entry visas at crossing points on the Albanian border . |
| 11 | PEOPLE fled in terror yesterday as a crashed petrol tanker exploded in a fireball , sending 7,000 gallons of blazing fuel roaring up the street . |
| 12 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 13 | Karl Heim , German Lutheran theologian , scientist and writer , recounts an incident which occurred in Moscow shortly after the Russian Revolution . |
| 14 | Such generosity was at the expense of the Greek cities of the coast , and helps to explain why they revolted from Persia again in 479 ( Hdt. ix.105 , treating their adhesion to the new Delian League as a second ‘ Ionian Revolt ’ ) , as before in the Ionian Revolt of 499 . |
| 15 | First establishing himself at Sockbridge Hall , Lowther moved to London permanently in 1663 . |
| 16 | He rose to power deep in the Badlands where his tribe , the Ironclaws , held the fortress known as the Iron Rock . |
| 17 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 18 | I tried to inch away from him but there was n't another seat to move to . |
| 19 | He crashed at Imola early in the 1957 season , and insult was literally added to injury when the three leading Italian manufacturers , Gilera , Moto Guzzi and Mondial withdrew from racing . |
| 20 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 21 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 22 | A DISTRESSED father appealed for help yesterday in finding the ‘ animals ’ who had gunned down his daughter and her husband . |
| 23 | Eddie Leadbeater , the leg spinner who played for Yorkshire just after the war , was my favourite opponent but Johnny Wardle , the old left-arm slow bowler , was a good player too and Ray Illingworth was a clever billiards player . |
| 24 | They stirred into life just before half-time , when Mickey Lewis came as close as anyone could to scoring |
| 25 | President François Mitterrand came under attack both from the opposition and from within his own Socialist Party ( PS ) early in September for his ambivalent initial reaction to the Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev ( although he had swiftly reversed this impression in a television appearance two days later ) . |
| 26 | Crews came under attack twice in Bootle and once in Kirkby . |
| 27 | THE traditional British breakfast of eggs , bacon and bangers came under attack yesterday on health grounds . |
| 28 | PLANNERS came under attack yesterday for allegedly being inconsistent in the way they deal with applications . |
| 29 | During 1990-91 the question of Irish neutrality came under discussion both in connection with the possible extension of EC competence to cover defence issues [ see p. 38022 ] and during the Gulf crisis , after the government announcement on Jan. 14 , 1991 , that it would allow US planes to refuel at Shannon airport en route for the Gulf [ see p. 37942 ] . |
| 30 | UMPIRE Steve Bucknor came under fire yesterday for refusing to view a TV replay in a run-out incident which could have a bearing on the second Test between South Africa and India . |