Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 3 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 4 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 5 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 6 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 7 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 8 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 9 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 10 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 11 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 12 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 13 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 14 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 15 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 16 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 17 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 18 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 19 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 20 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |
| 21 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 22 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 23 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 24 | Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes . |
| 25 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 26 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 27 | In fact they were painted from dead specimens , and to get within range of a naturalist was a misfortune for a nineteenth-century bird or animal ; but Audubon painted them against realistic backgrounds , and in more or less plausible action . |
| 28 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 29 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 30 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |