Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's now also a special budget priced Uno ‘ Spark ’ model , featuring over £500 worth of extra equipment , and it is some £300 less than its standard model . |
| 2 | The overwhelming presence of Microsoft Corp haunted Comdex last week . |
| 3 | That 's what happened when Ferguson fought Ray Mercer in what was to be a tune-up for Mercer before a £1.6 million challenge to Bowe . |
| 4 | THE IMPORTANCE of Hengist 's Saxon town and the ancient university made Stamford the ideal location for the siting of the Mercian court and government . |
| 5 | The curious thing is why a university made Mr Jeffries head of an academic department in the first place . |
| 6 | While she ate her chocolate biscuit Nicandra shared Gigi 's enjoyment of the familiar air : Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay . |
| 7 | Interpol investigations revealed Lisa was in a buggy being pushed by her mum Elizabeth when the car reversed , catching the pram and crushing it against a pillarbox . |
| 8 | Fitzgerald succeeded Jimmy Davidson as coach in the 1990–91 season . |
| 9 | Originally a ford , this crossing made Frodingham an important crossroads in medieval times and even earlier was part of the southern Viking route from Flamborough to York . |
| 10 | Mellor 's resignation plunged John Major into another huge crisis . |
| 11 | Windsor became London for Carry On Loving and Regardless , Maidenhead town hall was transformed into Finisham Maternity Hospital for Matron . |
| 12 | Stamford University became England 's third medieval academy alongside Oxford and Cambridge and threatened to supersede both . |
| 13 | Her cheeks hectically flushed , Luce avoided Rosa 's eye and admitted defeat . |
| 14 | Soon after completing The Death of Nelson Minton asked Ronald Searle to sign David Tindle 's application for money from the Artists ' General Benevolent Institution . |
| 15 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 16 | Maria flung Luke Scott a hostile look as he and Cavell Fielding appeared just as she was taking her leave of Giles and Ursula Estwick , with Florian and Nicky on either side of her . |
| 17 | His unexpected decision made SLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike conclude , when the House met on Oct. 9 , that there was no point in pursuing the motion of no confidence which she had tabled against Premadasa himself . |
| 18 | In his statement , Mr Annesley attacked Seamus Mallon , the SDLP MP who is regarded by members of the force as its most unremitting political critic . |
| 19 | For British Rail read Branson Rail , and several similar permutations . |
| 20 | Bufi met Pope John Paul II in the Vatican on July 4 , when Albania and the Holy See agreed to re-establish the diplomatic relations broken off following the communist takeover in Albania in 1946 . |
| 21 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 22 | King William appointed John Dalrymple as his representative and adviser in Scotland with the post of Secretary for Scotland and it was from that position of power that he influenced the machinations that led to the massacre in Glencoe . |
| 23 | This connection hints again that Fitzgerald led Eliot to the East , and that his reading in the history of religion affected his view of nineteenth-century poetry . |
| 24 | When rumours leaked out that the Welsh Office , rather than grasping this opportunity , were seeking a ‘ derogation ’ to allow it to maintain the present battery of schemes , CPRW asked David Hunt to ‘ introduce a single , comprehensive agri-environmental scheme for the whole of Wales , integrating existing area-based schemes such as ESAs , Tir Cymen , National Park and SSSI management agreements , as well as the extensification and organic farming conversion schemes currently under consideration . |
| 25 | from loyalist organisations and political groups met Whitelaw , the Northern Ireland Office would afterwards issue a press statement that such and such topics had been discussed and that he had emphasised the evils of violence and gangsterism . |
| 26 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 27 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 28 | Maria met Cavell 's watchful sapphire eyes and a furious resentment gripped her , felt on Cavell 's behalf almost as much as her own , because Luke could n't have spoken to her as he had earlier , openly stating that he intended to make her his mistress , if he had had any real regard for Cavell , or women in general , for that matter . |
| 29 | Morse interrupted Lewis 's thoughts : ‘ Shall I tell you exactly what our leader was doing in the betting-shop ? |
| 30 | Before his release from Reading gaol , Wilde appointed Ross his literary executor ; but with Wilde 's estate bankrupt , it was not until 1905 that Ross was able to pay Wilde 's creditors and annul the bankruptcy . |