Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 2 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 3 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 4 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 5 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 6 | The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . " |
| 7 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 8 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 9 | In 1985 , its Labour majority was bigger than that of the Tories and the people of Derbyshire re-elected it in 1989 : they are satisfied with Derbyshire county council 's policies , and when we have the general election they will kick out the Under-Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , the man with the Pampers on . |
| 10 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 11 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 13 | By 1961 it was fading : lack of resources kept it to four or six pages when other broadsheets were three or four times as big . |
| 14 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 15 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 16 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 17 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 18 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 19 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 20 | His quiet friendliness , calm courage and sense of humour endeared him to all , Burmans and British alike . |
| 21 | Although Norman horsemen used stirrups , a major invention and development in terms of medieval warfare , it is not certain if the warriors of Charlemagne used them to any great extent . |
| 22 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 23 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |
| 24 | Later , with the Single European Act and British membership of the exchange rate mechanism — the right hon. Member for Finchley took us into that — our sovereignty was further eroded . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 26 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 27 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 28 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 29 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 30 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |