Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought for King Charles in the Civil War and was killed at Marston Moor in 1644 . |
| 2 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 3 | Alastair 's going for Front Street at Nottingham number five in the two twenty , Thomo 's going for General Pershing in the two o'clock at Cheltenham . |
| 4 | Among the many friends who came to wish her a happy birthday were , he read a piece written for Miss Laye by the Hon. |
| 5 | He picked up a groin injury during his heroic performance in Lions colours in France and , with exhaustion probably exacerbating his condition , he makes way for David Thresher in the second row . |
| 6 | Rees-Mogg 's answer to the question of why his name had such appeal for Downing Street during the eighties has an undramatic plausibility about it . |
| 7 | Like I said last week , I would go for Andy Hinchcliffe down the left instead of Peter Beagrie . |
| 8 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |
| 9 | He had fought in the Boer War and he was John Buchan 's model for Richard Hannay in the Thirty-Nine Steps . |
| 10 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 11 | Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh , who has pursued the case for six years , said he was going after Mr Bush as the key figure in the 1986 scandal . |
| 12 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 13 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 14 | Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 . |
| 15 | From it , Glen Loy opens an inviting way into the hilly interior but the object that most excites attention is the tremendous bulk of Ben Nevis on the far side of the valley , better seen from here than from any other low viewpoint . |
| 16 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 17 | In the process , he illuminates the loneliness of Los Angeleans of the 90s as they try to find love and comfort in an essentially hostile environment . |
| 18 | Two students were killed on March 23 during anti-government demonstrations in the town of Merida , 600 km south-west of Caracas , and there were violent incidents in the Caracas suburb of Los Teques on the same day . |
| 19 | Although the eye-irritating smogs of Los Angeles in the 1940s received nationwide media coverage , it was not until a 1948 six-day smog in Donora , Pennsylvania , causing 6000 cases of illness and 20 deaths , that air pollution succeeded in gaining federal attention ( Schrenk et al. , 1949 ) . |
| 20 | The agreement centred on the acceptance of René Théodore as the new Prime Minister . |
| 21 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 22 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 23 | There is reason to associate this with the Minister of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty known as Imhotep , later deified as the Father of Egyptian science . |
| 24 | The earliest and most famous of these deified humans was Imhotep , the chief minister of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty ( about 2670 BC ) . |
| 25 | Under the editorship of Roman Prahl of the National Gallery of Prague , the first foreign language Czech art periodical has been launched , entitled Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague , with articles in French , English and German . |
| 26 | Turn left at the end of Union Street for the Marischal College , a tall and wide building of white-grey stone , with many windows and pinned down by several bus-stops . |
| 27 | Derby boss Arthur Cox had no complaints about the sending off of Jason Kavanagh in the 66th minute . |
| 28 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 29 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 30 | Yet for all her passionate dedication to public service she also knew how to enjoy herself and as an elderly lady was often seen at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo in the late 1920s , savouring to the full the social pleasures made possible by her unique commercial success . |