Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Frankly , this proposal reminded me of one of the quotations with which Taylor prefaces his chapter on ‘ Value-added Processes in Information Analysis ’ : |
| 3 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 4 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 6 | Another couple tried it on one of my trains a month or so ago . |
| 7 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 8 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 9 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 10 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 11 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 12 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 13 | It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact ! |
| 14 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 15 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 16 | His favourite horse was shot and draped over the grave and a dreamer bell was suspended over the chief 's body , to ring in the wind until a white man stole it in 1874 . |
| 17 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 18 | After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries . |
| 19 | The richest sources exploited today are the mines of Colombia , where the Spanish conquerors encountered them in 1537 . |
| 20 | The Champ , who retired six years , was an institution and his extraordinary finishing burst took him to 20 track records . |
| 21 | So closely did Burrows identify with Venizelos that the Greek statesman invited him in 1916 to act as the ‘ semi-official ’ representative in London of his breakaway provisional government in Salonika . |
| 22 | Refrigerators were especially expensive and only one in ten consumers had them by 1957 , while washing machines ( few of which were automatic ) had reached only one home in five . |
| 23 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 24 | The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive . |
| 25 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 26 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 27 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 28 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 29 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |