Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 2 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 3 | A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris . |
| 4 | And she claimed Darlington Borough Council told her to unblock the chimney herself . |
| 5 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 7 | Sadly , the convict 's transportation ship bore him to Botany Bay before a cure could be confirmed . |
| 8 | The operating philosophy set them by founder is as potent today as it was then : ‘ You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well . ’ |
| 9 | A crisp winter morning greeted us with snow quilted in twinkling ice crystals . |
| 10 | Yet when Ruksana Khan was attacked , the Home Secretary visited her in hospital and everything . |
| 11 | A sharp turn to the south east took us past St Ives , and up a massive sand-filled estuary towards Hayle . |
| 12 | ‘ Do Black Magic people in England attack you ? ’ a Roscommon chip shop boy asked me in awe . |
| 13 | He met her eyes and for a second time ; she smiled her shy smile at him , but his swimming head filled it with invitations . |
| 14 | To win a prize of any kind is exciting — to have won the Chevron FIRST PRIZE in The Artist 's Art in Nature competition filled me with exultation — and disbelief ! |
| 15 | My broadcasts for the war effort brought me into contact with the Chinese Ambassador to Canada , Dr Liu Shih Shen , who was , we learned later , a personal friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek . |
| 16 | And the fact that women compositors were drafted into the Post Office brought them into contact with male clerks there , at least before conscription . |
| 17 | Sometimes , they are abetted in their negligence ; but for the moment , let me abstract from the recollections of Sonia Lannaman , a sprinting prodigy from Aston , Birmingham , whose PE mistress introduced her to Solihull AC ( she transferred to Wolverhampton and Bilston in 1975 to train under Charles Taylor : ‘ I outgrew Solihull ’ ) . |
| 18 | Another horrible crackle overhead pushed her into decision . |
| 19 | As Brownlow recorded , a phone call bade him to Fort Belvedere , Windsor . |
| 20 | Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions . |
| 21 | He now heads Ladbrokes 's market at 6–1 ( from 7–1 ) with Coulton and Flown , after the champion jockey preferred him to Martin Pipe 's other challenger Valfinet , to be ridden by Jonathan Lower . |
| 22 | The Marshal connection brought him into friendship with the Basset family of Headington , Oxfordshire , and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire , for Gilbert Basset [ q.v. ] was also a prominent Marshal supporter . |
| 23 | Dormanstown Primary spent it on recreation and learning equipment for its special needs unit . |
| 24 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 25 | As a African a plastic bullet hit me in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society advised him to mortgage his home and invest the capital to give him and his wife an income . |
| 27 | By 1876 the growing interest in his metallic asbestos packing encouraged him to patent it and found the Beldam Packing and Rubber Company , which later became Beldam Crossley . |
| 28 | Only four years later a heart attack forced him into retirement . |
| 29 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 30 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |