Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that Mr Jotter gave them each a long word typed on a piece of card . |
| 2 | Newry clinched the points with almost the last kick of the game , Ralph scoring after sub Gary Hughes put him clear . |
| 3 | Newry clinched the points with almost the last kick of the game , Ralph scoring after sub Gary Hughes put him clear . |
| 4 | That came nine minutes from time when Steve Thornber scored with his shin after sub John Williams set him up as Swansea caught Pool on the counter-attack . |
| 5 | He stressed there was no one else involved in the break-up which comes just days after comic Jim Davidson revealed he was splitting from his fourth wife . |
| 6 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 7 | In 1969 he had been made assistant secretary to the Diocesan Schools Commission , becoming principal secretary three years later , he also became a member of the Finance Commission , and then in 1972 Bishop Wheeler appointed him his personal private secretary at Bishop 's House . |
| 8 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 9 | In 1738 John Grubb presented him as rector of Horsenden , Buckinghamshire , and in 1741 he resigned his fellowship to marry Grubb 's daughter , Elizabeth . |
| 10 | ( In 1940 there were only four entries so it was cancelled ) , but presumably this arrangement was unsatisfactory for in 1952 John Chalcraft bought it from the Club for £15 . |
| 11 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 12 | He calculated the subsistence wage for a male breadwinner with a wife and three children to be 21/8d , and in 1908 Edward Cadbury calculated it to be 25/ . |
| 13 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 14 | In 1958 Harold Macmillan called him Rip Van Winkle , because he talked about the " Concert of Europe " and " seemed not to have quite realised what had happened to the world since the end of the Second War " . |
| 15 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 16 | In 1920 and 1924 the 12 largest cities had voted Republican ; in 1928 Al Smith won them all . |
| 17 | In 1860 Benjamin Disraeli thought she had such a hold on Lytton that it was affecting his attendance at the House . |
| 18 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 19 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 20 | His successor as landlord , James ( possibly a relation of John ) decided to rename the Alma the Jubilee Hotel , but in 1878 John Wharlton converted it back into The Alma Hotel . |
| 21 | In 1724 Daniel Defoe described it as ‘ perhaps the largest , longest and finest street for buildings and number of inhabitants , not in Britain only , but in the world ’ . |
| 22 | In 1857 C. Cobbe saw it , remarking that |
| 23 | In 1965 Louise Ferrier decided she was sick of Australia and Sydney , which was , she remembers , a very small town in those days . |
| 24 | When the AV was being discussed in the House of Commons in 1931 Winston Churchill described it as " the worst of all possible plans , the least scientific and the most unreal . |
| 25 | When it opened at the Haymarket Theatre Royal in 1956 Kenneth Tynan hailed it as perhaps ‘ the finest artificial comedy to have flowed from an English ( as opposed to an Irish ) pen since the death of Congreve ’ . |
| 26 | In 1988 Meekatharra Minerals claimed it found gold above normal limits near Ballymoney , Co , Antrim . |
| 27 | In 1944 Adolf Hitler awarded him the cross of war merit , first class . |
| 28 | One of the women on this Sunderland estate told me they all recognised the drive : " It 's part of becoming a member of the community instead of just a reckless teenager . |
| 29 | On 4 December ESA announced it would begin the preparatory programme . |
| 30 | It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire . |