Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 2 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 3 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 4 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 5 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 6 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 7 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 8 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 9 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC sentenced him to six months imprisonment suspended for 15 months and ordered Gregory , of Bevanlee Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough , to pay £60 costs . |
| 10 | ‘ A thin man with fierce blazing eyes behind thick glasses , ’ Rebecca West called him in 1945 , ‘ a tiny fuzz of black hair fancifully arranged on his prematurely bald head , and wrists and ankles as straight as lead piping in their emaciation . ’ |
| 11 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 12 | Mrs. Mounce watched her with discreet curiosity . |
| 13 | It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis . |
| 14 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 15 | These ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painters , as the critic David Sylvester dubbed them in 1954 , owing to their preference for painting not tasteful still lifes but the debris left on the kitchen table or the image of a child being bathed in a sink , enjoyed overnight success . |
| 16 | The IRA bomb in Hyde Park left him with twenty serious shrapnel wounds . |
| 17 | According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder . |
| 18 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |
| 19 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 20 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 21 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 22 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 23 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 24 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 25 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 26 | It was after Frank Hoddinott joined us in 1923 that Palace fans ( all too briefly ) saw Whitworth at his best . |
| 27 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 28 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 29 | The leaders of the industry were shocked when Lord Chief Justice Goddard sentenced him to six months imprisonment . |
| 30 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |