Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rusticated like naughty undergraduates to remote provinces — Molotov as ambassador to Ulan Bator , Malenkov to run a power station , Kaganovich to run a cement works , while Marshals Zhukov and Bulganin in due course followed them into retirement . |
| 2 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 3 | ‘ The British Intelligence followed me to Spain , ’ he went on . |
| 4 | In a strange way , big-wave riding reminded me of cricket . |
| 5 | During the last Employment Question Time , the hon. Gentleman asked me about job clubs in his constituency , and I have written to him about the matter . |
| 6 | Rheumatoid arthritis diverted her to film , and she gained distinction in both the Certificate and Diploma in Film Studies ( London Extramural ) and taught in the film unit of the Slade School of Fine Art . |
| 7 | Possessed by the movie camera with which his sadistic father tortured him in childhood ‘ Tome ’ skewers his girlfriend with a stiletto tripod leg while he films the grim business . |
| 8 | ‘ Great ! ’ he said , ‘ The old bugger left me in charge of the shop for the whole afternoon . |
| 9 | Graham was a pioneer rock and winter climber before a broken leg turned him to sailing . |
| 10 | Then the old man sent him to Manchester University for his degree . |
| 11 | His descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation filled him with self-disgust , and his still undeclared love for Mary Evans was gaining a disturbing power . |
| 12 | The 6 hour 45 minute trip took them to Amiens , Mannheim , Kitzingen , Wurzburg , Frankfurt , Brussels , Wing and then back to base . |
| 13 | When Julia was 20 , a social worker put her in touch with the National Deaf-Blind League . |
| 14 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 15 | Bad debts and the doubling of rent and rates on this hi-tec factory pushed him into liquidation . |
| 16 | Mr Galloway 's less abrasive contribution on the floor of the conference in support of greater autonomy for the Scottish party brought him into conflict with the Aberdeen North MP , Bob Hughes . |
| 17 | One typically frenetic four-day jaunt took him to Pontresino in the Alps to find Eritrichium nanum , ‘ King of the Alps ’ ( on the way home Evan 's chauffeur , the Snowdonia Park Head Warden John Ellis Reports , had to navigate by road-signs and instinct , Evan having filled the road atlas with pressed flower-heads of more common species ) . |
| 18 | His contemptuous gaze swept her from head to foot , in swift appraisal . |
| 19 | However , the extraordinary pleasure of seeing a bunch of terrified men running in all directions and in complete disarray spurred us into action . |
| 20 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 21 | A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family . |
| 22 | He was buried in state at Repton but a contemporary visionary pictured him in hell . |
| 23 | Ten minutes of easy walking brought them to Sybil 's house . |
| 24 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 25 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 26 | His medium stature condemned him to character parts — unless a choreographer created something especially for him , as John Cranko did in Prince of the Pagodas and Bonne-Bouche and Kenneth MacMillan in Noctambules . |
| 27 | An early interpretation saw them as barracks for troops used by Swegen Forkbeard to conquer England , with each house containing a ship 's crew . |
| 28 | Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard . |
| 29 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 30 | Indeed , my future mother-in-law defended me against criticism in this regard , with the quelling reply : ‘ She has a trained mind , and nothing to unlearn ! ’ |