Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 2 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 3 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 4 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 6 | British fashion slaves , who would n't venture into Waitrose without a tasteful mélange of Gaultier , Joseph and Alaïa ( or nearest decent copies ) clamped to their backs , still pack the floral swimsuit Mum bought them in 1976 for a Guide camp trip . |
| 7 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 8 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 9 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 10 | ‘ Estella waved a blue one , and I had a red one , and Miss Havisham waved one with little gold stars on , out of the carriage window . ’ |
| 11 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 12 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 13 | In the 20 years since the National Jazz , Blues And Rock Festival relocated itself from sleepy London toff suburb , Richmond , to its present Thames Valley site , the Reading Festival has become the premier rock gig . |
| 14 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 15 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 16 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 17 | For the next few years , David Whitaker immersed himself in all aspects of writing for Television . |
| 18 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC sentenced him to six months imprisonment suspended for 15 months and ordered Gregory , of Bevanlee Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough , to pay £60 costs . |
| 19 | Ellen Harker seated herself on one of the crates thoughtfully provided by Mother Bombie , drew a gentle breath and began : |
| 20 | Miss Trunchbull possessed none of these qualities and how she ever got her present job was a mystery . |
| 21 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 22 | ‘ A thin man with fierce blazing eyes behind thick glasses , ’ Rebecca West called him in 1945 , ‘ a tiny fuzz of black hair fancifully arranged on his prematurely bald head , and wrists and ankles as straight as lead piping in their emaciation . ’ |
| 23 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 24 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 25 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 26 | Mrs. Mounce watched her with discreet curiosity . |
| 27 | It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis . |
| 28 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 29 | These ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painters , as the critic David Sylvester dubbed them in 1954 , owing to their preference for painting not tasteful still lifes but the debris left on the kitchen table or the image of a child being bathed in a sink , enjoyed overnight success . |
| 30 | Prince charles presented them with three accolades — including his special patron 's award — at the National Training Awards organised by the Department of Employment . |