Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First though , while in Cairo , Stirling met some illustrious company . |
| 2 | When Mr Rocard made that speech , the ecologists were being credited with almost 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 3 | In this Minton admitted that lithography for him remained ‘ a business of surprises , hazards and disasters ’ . |
| 4 | Jim got all his news from The Southland Times , which he was sent once a week from Invercargill . |
| 5 | H.S. Lecky got less than half way through his The King 's Ships ( 1913–14 ) , giving a history , in alphabetical order of name , of the ships of the Royal Navy . |
| 6 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 7 | They marched from Geneva , Charles leading one army over Mont Cenis , while his uncle Bernard led another through the Great St Bernard Pass . |
| 8 | The truth would never lose its power to wound , but Maria lacked any inclination to retaliate , aware that the same truth must be hurting Luke just as deeply , albeit in an entirely different way . |
| 9 | Of the two famous rune stones which stand outside the church at Jelling , the smaller states that " King Gorm made these memorials to Thyre his wife , Denmark 's ornament " ; the larger that " King Harald commanded these memorials made to Gorm his father and Thyre his mother . |
| 10 | Sue was on about her daughter living with that bloke like , I do n't know if it was the same bloke , I just du n no , yes it is , yes it is , it 's got ta be the one , when she broke her shoulder , it 's got ta be , anyway he got no job and Sarah got this good job apparently wherever it is , I ca n't remember where it was |
| 11 | Rameau laid this out as a simple trio for first and second violins and continuo , with flutes doubling the firsts in unison . |
| 12 | Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries . |
| 13 | Frau Nordern made another foray . |
| 14 | Stockman got most of the cuts he wanted from the cabinet and then turned his attention to the legislature . |
| 15 | The Hercules made another , much higher pass , its whine almost lost in the roaring sea . |
| 16 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 17 | Kelly made some superb runs , and was one of the better crossers of the ball . |
| 18 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 19 | Ever Dennis Peck 's Bad Boy , Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer Scott McNealy got some mileage out of the fact that Sun , DEC and Hewlett-Packard all made their announcements the same day last week : ‘ there 's a lot of noise out there right now , ’ he told his satellite audience . |
| 20 | De La Rue announced that first half profit before tax rose by 48% to £46m ; the figure was helped by a contribution from the Swedish Inter Innovation which De La Rue bought a year ago . |
| 21 | Gerry Healy made more ex-Trotskyists than anyone else except Stalin . |
| 22 | Everett and Horsley consulted each other quickly , then agreed . |
| 23 | On Feb. 5 Public Welfare Minister Supardjo Rustam announced that famine in Kuriwa , a district of the remote province of Irian Jaya , had claimed the lives of 132 people , after bad weather had prevented crop-planting in the area . |
| 24 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 25 | Cromwell had secured a peacetime subsidy in 1534 and Northumberland got another in 1553 , but most of the latter was remitted by Mary . |
| 26 | Last year Ian made this bungy jump out of a balloon at more than ten thousand feet . |
| 27 | Trevor and Lucy Blake were slightly unusual parents , although it was years before Alan and his sister Pamela realized this . |
| 28 | When a Serbian family in the village of Zakuti sold some of their land to Albanians , the local committee of the Party decided that this was an act of ‘ treachery ’ , and demanded that in future the law banning sales to other nationalities should be strictly enforced . |
| 29 | Then Ian realised that was n't in fact true . |
| 30 | The enormous pool of poverty in India , Pakistan , Bangladesh or Baluchistan made such social evolutions impossible . |