Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 2 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 3 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 5 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 7 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 8 | Britain 's golden girl missed out by a stride on an £86,000 jackpot when arch-rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick pipped her in the 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Grand Prix final and also won the women 's overall title . |
| 9 | Originally stolen by a wizard from a DRAGON 's cave , the Emperor Charlemagne gave it to the four sons of Aymon . |
| 10 | The problem is an old one : Ford faced it in the 1920s when it shipped its mass-production methods across to old-fashioned , craft-based Europe . |
| 11 | She turned to bachelor colleague Phillip Levy to fulfill her in the Sixties . |