Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the 20 years since the National Jazz , Blues And Rock Festival relocated itself from sleepy London toff suburb , Richmond , to its present Thames Valley site , the Reading Festival has become the premier rock gig . |
| 5 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 6 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 7 | Prince charles presented them with three accolades — including his special patron 's award — at the National Training Awards organised by the Department of Employment . |
| 8 | In breaks in our work Edward entertained me with curious stories of the old alchemists . |
| 9 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 10 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 11 | Impatience with her own see-saw emotions robbed her of any desire for sleep . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No wonder Sebastian welcomed you with open arms . ’ |
| 14 | Four victories and two second places took her to 140 points before the Christmas break , almost 100 ahead of the next best , Switzerland 's Chantal Bournissen . |
| 15 | Overall , at the end of the trial , 20% of the fluticasone propionate group considered themselves in complete remission , compared with 39% of the prednisolone group ( p=0.003 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 18 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 19 | It is strongly argued by Rubinstein ( 1976 ) and others that establishment institutions revitalised themselves in this period to absorb and assimilate the new capitalists into older values and older structures of influence . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 22 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 23 | Bernhart Silberysen was the mayor in charge of the restoration , and the town council presented him with this bowl in thanks . |
| 24 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 25 | In India , local business leaders committed themselves to rural community projects following a BITCI forum held there in February . |
| 26 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 27 | Tuesday 's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen . |
| 28 | The fear that it might show on her face caused her to turn away from him and hasten towards the food hampers , and as she did so a shock revelation hit her with full force . |
| 29 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 30 | Our first steps off the Spyway road took us through green and pleasant farmland where playful sheep frolicked alongside and a lone tractor droningly went about its work . |