Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 2 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 3 | One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville . |
| 4 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 5 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 6 | As I was getting into the car I remembered about the Propamidine . |
| 7 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 8 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 9 | This Saturday we went with the Quigleys , Hannah Dooley , Pike , the Clara Beedings ( as Roger and Clara are known ) and , to my surprise and dismay , Mrs Danby . |
| 10 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 11 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 12 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 13 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 14 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 15 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 16 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 17 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 18 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 19 | However , her lack of confidence was shown in her reluctance to exhibit or even sign the work she sent to the London Group , where it was seen and admired by André Derain . |
| 20 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 21 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 22 | Well I should n't say this , I , I , I d I , I , I said it I have n't s really said it to Irene but I did say it to Con we went on the Friday did n't we ? |
| 23 | They longed for the hats and shoes they saw in the Galeries Lafayette . |
| 24 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 25 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 26 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 27 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 28 | At the first rehearsal he played through the Brahms Second and changed nothing . |
| 29 | Finally , I would observe that the justice in this case is not to be criticised for the decision she reached on the Friday , which was based on advice given her by a legally qualified court clerk , reinforced by the submission of the representative of the Crown Prosecution Service and acquiesced in by the defendant 's solicitor . |
| 30 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |