Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The art historians and restorers dealing with the St Servatius restoration are pleased with the expertise DSM has brought to the project . |
| 2 | Demonstrators held Daio responsible for the country 's economic difficulties which they said were a direct result of the structural adjustment programme Daio had agreed with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 3 | 16 year old Mark Cross and 17 year old Paul Eversham are being brought into the side to show off the talent Hereford has to offer for the future . |
| 4 | It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991 . |
| 5 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 6 | Eventually they approached the figure Endill had seen in the distance . |
| 7 | In between came the almost arrogant announcement that President Bush had decided unilaterally to end the diplomatic isolation China had suffered since the massacre of Tiananmen Square . |
| 8 | More recently , professor Griffith has spoken of the need for a new jurisprudence for public law , which he suggests might best be founded on some ( unspecified ) modern variant of utilitarianism ( Griffith , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 10 | The day before his election Kim had presided over the 18th plenary session of the sixth Korean Workers ' Party central committee which approved the appointment of Choe Kwang and Han Song Yong to the politburo . |
| 11 | CONFIDENCE in Derby favourite Tenby continued to wane over the weekend in response to his poor workout . |
| 12 | She was better the following day , however , entirely recovered , it seemed , and when , from the balcony , she caught sight of him skulking , she quickly volunteered to fetch the dish Sabina had prepared from the oven in the piazza . |
| 13 | And the family fun shines through again when Paul 's stepdaughter Heather tries to climb on the car roof . |
| 14 | As chairman of the 1848 committee on the peasant question Alexander had presided over the cancellation of the one statute enacted between 1825 and 1855 which allowed serfs to buy their freedom irrespective of the wishes of serf-owners . |
| 15 | After making peace Alexander appeared to move in the direction of reform , but his celebrated speech to marshals of the Moscow gentry needs to be set in context . |
| 16 | Security guard Fred had played for the Scholes club near Rotherham , South Yorks , since he was only 12 . |
| 17 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 18 | In a striking passage Daphne recalls working in the fields with her mother , falling ill from the heat , and being consoled by stories about love . |
| 19 | Table Tennis Douglas aims to fizz past a flat champion . |
| 20 | Otto and I started on the marc Otto had brought as a present . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a pity Margaret decided to stay in the country , ’ Anne said . |
| 22 | From this unpromising inheritance Leopold had created by the end of his reign , at least on paper , one of the best-governed states in Europe . |
| 23 | Before he completed the sentence Carrie had tumbled from the bed and was limping rapidly from the room , in a state of total nakedness . |
| 24 | Rildia Bee held court , charming and charmed , while Gisella Tect , baker extraordinaire , cut the wedding cake Van had bought for the party , as lovely as the wedding cakes he always has at parties for his mother , a wedding cake made , of course , by Gisella Tect herself . |
| 25 | Mathematics if not logic equated the two-goal lead Chelsea had established on the hour with a third-round place for the First Division side after the two clubs had drawn 1-1 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 26 | In the orchard , Murphy was standing beside the trough Alexandra had appropriated for the hens ' use . |
| 27 | Conservation group Plantlife has called on the government to use powers of compulsory purchase to protect the remaining bogs . |
| 28 | But at that same moment Giles had lurched through the crowd to her side and draped a possessive arm around her shoulders , muttering through a cloud of whisky fumes that they had to talk . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , to put him out of his misery , ‘ you know that big skylight Sunil had put in the bathroom when the house was done up . ’ |
| 30 | Shnezhana and her husband Haris had escaped to the seaside quiet of Split from the beseiged town of Mostar . |