Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently Clough Williams-Ellis bought the handsome inn outside the gates of Attingham , Shropshire , which he renamed the Mytton and Mermaid and promoted as a staging post for guests en route to Portmeirion . |
| 2 | That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya — he put her , indefinitely , on hold . |
| 3 | Akeman Street was the boundary between what is now Tackley Park and Whitehill Farm as early as the year 1004 when King Ethelred gave the small estate of Whitehill to St Frideswide 's monastery at Oxford , and it is still a boundary though the Roman road has vanished from sight . |
| 4 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 5 | Ben Crawley got the only try as Saracens beat relegation favourites Rugby 14-6 . |
| 6 | At a press conference on Aug. 3 , the HSP chairman accused the ruling party of rigging the elections , and of manipulating the national media . |
| 7 | In August 1858 , Nez Perce scouts accompanied the punitive expedition of General George Wright , who ruthlessly subdued the tribes of the upper Columbia , hanging prisoners on the spot . |
| 8 | Patrick Kelly heard the underlying loneliness in her voice and knew instinctively that they were two of a kind . |
| 9 | Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained the Supreme Court ruling on the basis that , while the abduction might be " shocking " and might have violated international law , it was not prohibited either by the extradition treaty or by the US constitution . |
| 10 | Ian Somerville did the electrical system . |
| 11 | Major General Sir William Dornberg received the pencil-written despatch in the town hall at Mons which he had made into his headquarters , and where he had transformed the ancient council chamber into his map room . |
| 12 | Flying Scot : Jim Moodie found the winning formula . |
| 13 | Kiwi manager Ian Taylor took the unprecedented step of telling the world what had happened because he wanted the ICC to investigate Pakistan . |
| 14 | Lancashire rider Ian Newton produced the best performance of his career when he won the 250cc class in the second round of the European road-racing championship at Kirkistown , County Down . |
| 15 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
| 16 | The Truman administration recognised the catastrophic deterioration and determined at the beginning of August that action would have to be taken . |
| 17 | Marcus Hannaford got the final touch down . |
| 18 | Colonel Bonesteel believed the 38th parallel was the most satisfactory line in dividing Soviet and American spheres that could be arrived at-this would place Seoul , the Korean capital , in the American sphere . |
| 19 | The entry of Alain Prost into the McLaren equation galvanized the whole team , and Niki as well . |
| 20 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 21 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 22 | Kelly Von Stauffenberg used the double elimination format to full advantage at the 14 and under winter circuit tournament at Bisham Abbey , played at the beginning of December . |
| 23 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 24 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 25 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 26 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 27 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 28 | Mrs. Whitlock retained the pre-war length of dress , almost to the ground and covered by a voluminous apron made from discarded sugar sacks . |
| 29 | Prosecution Counsel Steven Williamson described the horrific atrtack which took place in Mrs Howe 's room on campus . |
| 30 | Slowly , as the followers of the Phoenix King gained the upper hand , these mighty mages fled to Nagarythe and lent their strength to Malekith . |