Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 2 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 3 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 4 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 5 | ‘ Well ? ’ asked Morse at long last . |
| 6 | ‘ What did Raimundo do ? ’ asked Perdita in awe . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's up with him ? ’ asked Perdita in amazement . |
| 8 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 9 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 10 | ‘ Suits me , ’ agreed Lefevre with a grin . |
| 11 | ‘ Why is Gilbert so frightened ? ’ asked Cardiff at last . |
| 12 | Thérèse shouted out the Holy Name of Jesus and wiped Madeleine from her mind , wiped her hands on her apron . |
| 13 | Sir John Harvey-Jones , who led ICI to its first billion-pound profit in 1984 , was always going to be a hard act to follow . |
| 14 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 15 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 16 | THE NEXT TIME Heathcliff came to Thrushcross Grange , he met Isabella by chance in front of the house . |
| 17 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |
| 18 | ‘ Which one ? ’ countered Nessie with a smile . |
| 19 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 20 | Banned on Mars , realized Jezrael in hysterical irrelevance . |
| 21 | ‘ I met Harvey in a restaurant , ’ she mused . |
| 22 | New risk determination procedures introduced after the three crashes revealed Newton to be the most dangerous junction in the country . |
| 23 | New risk determination procedures introduced after the three crashes revealed Newton to be the most dangerous junction in the country . |
| 24 | Beckenbauer , who led Germany to World Cup triumphs as captain and coach , is known as Kaiser Franz to his fans . |
| 25 | Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby . |
| 26 | And what of Malcolm Crosby … he teamed up with Smith at York … followed him to Roker and then took over and led Sunderland to Wembley … |
| 27 | ‘ When Scotland met Germany in Norkopping during the European Championship last summer , we had 14 corner kicks and they had two . |
| 28 | In February 1173 he met Humbert at Montferrat in the Auvergne to finalize the details of the betrothal . |
| 29 | ‘ Book ? ’ asked Jan with a frown . |
| 30 | Privately , Roxburgh and his assistant , Craig Brown , wondered if the questionable temperament which embroiled Ferguson in court cases arising from incidents off the park would ultimately hinder his progress . |