Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 2 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 3 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 4 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |
| 5 | McManaman made it three on 61 minutes … the County Ground faithful started to suffer from shellshock … the Town defence looked battle weary and beaten and surely would have stopped Ronie Whelan from scoring on a better day … |
| 6 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 7 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 8 | The Housing and Town Planning Act made it obligatory for local authorities to prepare surveys of their housing needs , to draw up plans to deal with them , and to carry out their schemes . |
| 9 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 10 | For obvious reasons , many of the Dutch settlers in Cape Town found it expedient under English rule to become anglicized , although those who had moved inland maintained their national identity . |
| 11 | Havvie Blaine disgusted him most of all . |
| 12 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 13 | Kuhl made it 3-0 after 57 minutes , lashing home from 25 yards but then came the exciting climax , during which Swindon scored twice . |
| 14 | Sheron made it 2–0 after 37 minutes . |
| 15 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 16 | Justice Day sentenced them both to 20 years ' penal servitude . |
| 17 | This expansionist financial relationship made it possible for central government ministers to use the rhetoric of partnership , while actually bribing local authorities to act as their agents . |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday 's chief goalscorer made it nine from 13 games in the defeat of QPR but later revealed he is happy for the first time this season . |
| 19 | These enormous questions beset us all at various stages of life , but as we have seen they can be particularly problematical for older people . |
| 20 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 21 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 22 | As I said Tillo ran him ragged at some stages in the game . |
| 23 | But the violent character of the BUF and its unashamed adoption of foreign symbols made it unattractive to many who might otherwise have agreed with some of its policies , and made it doubly obnoxious to the Left . |
| 24 | The gaekwar of Baroda made him diwan in 1873 but Naoroji left after thirteen unhappy months . |
| 25 | Next morning found us deep in subterranean Rims . |
| 26 | Oh I du n no you 'll have to talk to Ian , she said I 've been working Les done , er Les , Les told me eleven till three , it was half past eleven till three and er , so Bev was alright |
| 27 | But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes , yellow with age , he looked exactly what he was — an orphan in a workhouse , ready for a life of misery , hunger , and neglect . |
| 28 | An old battle-axe of a nun wrapped them both in heavy blankets , forcing cups of mulled wine down their throats . |
| 29 | The Lewis 's lightness and versatility made it useful in close-support infantry attacks also . |
| 30 | The District committee relented ; withdrew their objections and Jacques made it clear to Green it was only through his personal intervention and tenacity as the General Secretary that ‘ the WEA had been saved from disaster , and that this agreement represented , in fact , the charter which gives us continued and autonomous existence ’ . |