Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 3 | It was held that the settlor had retained an interest in the accumulated income because the payments of income gave him the benefit of being able to withdraw his capital deposited at the bank . |
| 4 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 5 | Afterwards , the people of Haworth gave him a gold watch . |
| 6 | Arnold was of Tom Arnold 's circus , and his post as the vice-chairman of the party in charge of candidates made him a target of all those who were eager to stand for Parliament . |
| 7 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 8 | Edward , his half-brother , succeeded , aged about 38 years , and he remained as King for twenty-four years , during which time his endeavours towards sainthood earned him the title of The Confessor . |
| 9 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 10 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 11 | Tom Otterness of the allegory of greed got himself a lot of unfortunate notoriety some years ago by shooting a dog as a work of performance art . |
| 12 | The outbreak of war found him a colonel of fifty-eight , who had never served abroad . |
| 13 | They forfeited only one game in their rousing win while sisters Jane Thomas and Gail Richards of Rhyl made it a family affair , beating Joanne Attwood and Lara Hill of Mold in three tough sets . |
| 14 | As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans . |
| 15 | Mrs Celia jay of Blaxhall gave me an account of how she went crow-keeping at the end of last century : |
| 16 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 17 | His new tone of seriousness gave her the courage to look round . |
| 18 | The provost of Glasgow gave her a nickname . |
| 19 | Amongst the possible charges which legislators could face were fraud ( a fraud statute of the District of Columbia made it a felony for a person knowingly to write a cheque which exceeded the amount in the relevant account by more than $100 ) , tax evasion , and the violation of disclosure and campaign fund laws . |
| 20 | But then the pointlessness of unemployment gave him no pleasure . |
| 21 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 22 | Their standards of excellence won them the award for best staff restaurant , and they finished in joint second place overall out of all the shops , cafes , hotels , restaurants and canteens in the district . |
| 23 | His determination to prevent the vessel from being claimed for salvage earned him a bravery award from the US Congress . |
| 24 | But caring for Biggles taught us a lot . |
| 25 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 26 | George pointed wordlessly to an immense tank of water and with amusement showed me the system for telling the quantity of the contents . |
| 27 | Cohabiting with Sien made him a denizen of the slum district she knew intimately . |
| 28 | A dear friend of mine from Middlesbrough brought me a dog which turned out to have distemper , and he died . |
| 29 | His initial promise in sports gained him the tag of ‘ the runner ’ which he despised : ‘ So , I thought : I 'll try to be academic and good at sports as well . ’ |
| 30 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |