Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Warner had lost that sort of a sum from that sort of a fortune . |
| 2 | Announcing the cuts to the National Assembly on Feb. 5 , Prime Minister Michel Rocard had said that wage costs and the cost of servicing the public debt and the defence budget would not be included in economies . |
| 3 | Patrick Lundy had made many friends amongst London 's large Irish community , his parentage , and especially the fact that his father had fought and died in the General Post Office , making him welcome . |
| 4 | Band leader Flea Balzany managed to upstage bad-boy rivals Guns ‘ N Roses by : |
| 5 | JUST to prove that there is life after rugby , last year 's Grand Slam coach Roger Uttley decided to forsake this season 's Paris showdown in favour of an altogether different sort of grunt-and-grind in Boston . |
| 6 | Pierre Balmin , Yves St Laurent , and Pierre Cardin had bought old palaces in the town and renovated them elegantly . |
| 7 | Plucky Steven had to have another operation . |
| 8 | The MNR leader Afonso Dhlakama denied receiving military assistance from Kenya , but the closeness of the MNR 's Kenyan links were confirmed when diplomatic sources stated during August that at least one MNR military training camp operated inside Kenya , and an MNR battalion trained in Kenya was reported to have entered Mozambique on Aug. 11 near the village of Tsangano in Tete province . |
| 9 | David Copperfield had taken second place to Great Expectations . |
| 10 | Mr Farquharson claimed in a recent interview in the Sun that Miss Bonham-Carter had replied four times to his letters and sent him a signed photo with a kiss . |
| 11 | Only the strong figure of David Wallington seemed to promise any kind of help and she called out to him . |
| 12 | But before those two goals Arsenal had made heavy weather of things in a first-half that they dominated , with Wright sending a header and a shot over the Everton bar . |
| 13 | After the restart North started to play better rugby gaining more possession and putting Malone under pressure for the first fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | From her savings Ruth had bought new boots , stockings , a warm flannel petticoat and a gown made of Yorkshire wool . |
| 15 | Not until Miss Tuckey had missed next morning 's service did a neighbour with a key go in to see if she was all right . |
| 16 | Sitting down between two piles of books Endill began to read Useful Tips on Flying , but it was more about what to do when you had a plane rather than how to make one . |
| 17 | Mollie Salisbury had designed several gardens for friends , as well as her own at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire , and she was only too delighted to help plan a garden from scratch . |
| 18 | International botanist David Bellamy refused to release 1,000 balloons at the official opening of Middlesbrough 's botanic centre saying they would kill birds and wildlife . |
| 19 | Over the years Mrs. Jarrett had seen many changes , not only in the staff and resident body of the home and in the facilities it now provides , but in government legislation within the various departments of health and social security , with whom she had established for Le Court a strong and trusting relationship . |
| 20 | Some drunk downstairs was yelling about monsters , and I figured Orson Welles had pulled another Men from Mars gag . |
| 21 | After the break Walden began to win more ball , which they ran with great vigour , and were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions . |
| 22 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 23 | New Zealand pushed out to 26-15 with a Kevin Iro try and a second from Elia , but after David Tanner had pegged two points back with a penalty , the winger claimed the try of the match by finishing a thrilling move between Phil Veivers and Mark Bailey . |
| 24 | He said that during the first interview Hepburn had denied any involvement , but when seen again 40 minutes later ‘ frankly said that he was responsible for the assaults on both girls ’ . |
| 25 | Project Eden had eaten five years of his life , and spat them back at him , empty of meaning . |
| 26 | Preparations for another expedition to Brittany were under discussion in May 1374 , and in August Duke John , together with Edmund Langley Earl of Cambridge , the Earl of March and Edward Despenser agreed to take 4,000 men to the duchy for a year . |
| 27 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 28 | Presumably Miss Philimore had placed some sort of order before she left , forgetting that she would no longer be around to take delivery . |
| 29 | By 1875 , the Liverpool physiologist Richard Caton had detected tiny fluctuations in voltages present on the surface of the brains or scalps of monkeys , cats and rabbits . |
| 30 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |