Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 2 | British fashion slaves , who would n't venture into Waitrose without a tasteful mélange of Gaultier , Joseph and Alaïa ( or nearest decent copies ) clamped to their backs , still pack the floral swimsuit Mum bought them in 1976 for a Guide camp trip . |
| 3 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 4 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 5 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 6 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 7 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
| 8 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 9 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 10 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |
| 11 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 12 | WHEN THE originators of the Dart Valley Light Railway plc formed it in 1965 they always intended that it should be a commercially operated line rather than a ‘ preserved ’ railway , for having looked at the then contemporary scene they felt that there were enough preservationists at work already and that their nice for survival in an essentially holiday area should be revenue-earning profitability . |
| 13 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 14 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 15 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 16 | Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help . |
| 17 | The Albanian Communist Party , formed by the defeated minority in the former ruling communist PLA when party reformists renamed it in 1991 , was thus outlawed . |