Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 2 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 3 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 4 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 5 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 6 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 7 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 8 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 11 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 12 | By 1961 it was fading : lack of resources kept it to four or six pages when other broadsheets were three or four times as big . |
| 13 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 14 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 15 | ‘ My father left me in sole and total charge , ’ she said slowly , battling to retain control of her emotions . |
| 16 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 17 | They also argued that their place in the world economy entitled them to special and separate treatment from the continental states . |
| 18 | Our first steps off the Spyway road took us through green and pleasant farmland where playful sheep frolicked alongside and a lone tractor droningly went about its work . |
| 19 | Of these redoubtable ladies , Lady Abrahams ( a Czechoslovakian by birth ) won the County Championship five times in 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 and 1957 ; Diana won it in 1968 and 1970 . |
| 20 | Unleaded petrol did not reach our garages until 1986 , although the USA had it in 1975 and Japan from 1977 . |
| 21 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |
| 22 | Bell acquired it in 1957 and undertook the two-seat conversion . |
| 23 | W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907 . |