Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
2 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
3 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
4 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
5 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
6 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
7 | As such it provided further evidence of a more flexible North Korean foreign policy arising in response to the momentous changes in Eastern Europe , and to South Korea 's recent successes in establishing relations with socialist countries . |
8 | He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments . |
9 | On 17 July 1054 he consecrated Godric abbot of Winchcombe , having held the abbey himself since the death of Abbot Godwin in 1053 . |
10 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
11 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
12 | In 1920 he became honorary director of the department of applied optics , National Institute for Medical Research , retiring during World War II . |
13 | By the time he was twenty he was working with his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel ; in 1831 he was put in charge of the suspension bridge at Clifton ( q.v. ) which he had designed ; and in 1833 he became chief engineer of the Great Western Railway , which was largely his brainchild . |
14 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
15 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
16 | Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's . |
17 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
18 | ‘ I 'm sure I searched this part of the library before , ’ said Endill poking his head outside . |
19 | The murderer probably came by these , killed the old woman and went back , making sure he removed all trace of his movements . ’ |
20 | From Hut 5 he had thirty yards of snow space to cross . |
21 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
22 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
23 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
24 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
25 | Paradoxically , in 1987 we imported 12,000 tonnes of waste glass , while recycling only 13 per cent of the glass we throw away . |
26 | On 22 December 1631 he became non-resident governor of Jersey , and through the 1630s sat on several administrative commissions . |
27 | In 1795 he published Forty-eight views of the Lake District and Four Views of Wales , and in 1796 a Series of picturesque views of the North of England . |
28 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
29 | To the first he gave five bags of gold , to the second , two bags , and to the third , one bag of gold . |
30 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |