Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is the first time that ICL has split off part of its business to the extent of actually forming a new subsidiary . |
| 2 | During his term as councillor Jim has served as chairman of the transportation committee and also on numerous committees . |
| 3 | Mr W. F. G. Plowden has agreed in principle to the Society having the Bishop 's Castle Railway goods van , at present used as a shed at Eaton Station House — but the Society will have to provide a shed in lieu . |
| 4 | Mrs Marcos has gained in stature during her exile . |
| 5 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 6 | After months of teetering on the brink , David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors . |
| 7 | MICHAEL Murray has quit as boss of wedding dresses and dinner jackets group , Cupid after a boardroom row . |
| 8 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 9 | Winnie Mandela has appeared in court in Soweto to be formally charged on four counts of kidnapping and four counts of assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm . |
| 10 | David has worked in Bank of Ireland , Enniscorthy since 1982 . |
| 11 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 12 | It will certainly be the biggest ‘ live ’ audience Wright has played in front of — and it could well be his last game for the Magpies . |
| 13 | Like the overnight success of a movie star , health care reform in the United States has leapt from oblivion to notoriety . |
| 14 | Richard felt overwhelmed with affection for her . |
| 15 | Eanfrith and Osric are said by Bede to have reverted to paganism on their accession , but it may be that Paulinus and the queen did not take flight immediately upon the death of Eadwine but only on the death of Osric . |
| 16 | The Lintons all liked her , and poor Edgar had fallen in love with her . |
| 17 | When David had gone into consultation with the old man earlier , she had been instructed not to disturb them . |
| 18 | They had been caught playing mother and father in the hay rick and Tristram had got into trouble for it and Uncle Harry had said evil things and called her mother a whore . |
| 19 | The central figure in his story is always Pope Gregory I. Ralph insisted that the Canterbury case was based on Gregory 's actions and intentions , and on the weight that Gregory had attached to continuity of tradition . |
| 20 | It had been a very typical contract that Mark Letterworth had contrived in outline for the sale of the turbine engines to a Moscow factory . |
| 21 | It was a standard interview room and the only non-regulation items to break the monotony of tube-legged table and chairs were the cigarettes , lighter and an ashtray advertising Tuborg lager which Malpass had placed in front of himself . |
| 22 | Alan Travers had risen to prominence in his wife 's organisation and was now one of the Family Party 's two members of parliament . |
| 23 | Edward had gone on crusade with the future pope Gregory X , convener of the Council of Lyons . |
| 24 | About that time the Tower of London fell to the rebel citizens and Bishop Stapledon of Exeter , whom Edward had left in charge of the city , was lynched : he was dragged from his horse to the great cross in Cheapside , stripped of his armour and beheaded with a bread-knife . |
| 25 | Mancini reported that the woman in question was a foreigner whom Edward had married by proxy on the orders of the earl of Warwick , a reference perhaps to Bona of Savoy . |
| 26 | Mancini reported that the woman in question was a foreigner whom Edward had married by proxy on the orders of the earl of Warwick , a reference perhaps to Bona of Savoy . |
| 27 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 28 | Barnala had resigned as leader of the moderate Akali Dal ( Longowal ) faction on May 13 . |
| 29 | A state of emergency has been in force and the Sultan has ruled by decree since a large-scale revolt in 1962 which resulted in the suspension of sections of the Constitution . |
| 30 | INVITATIONS to a prominent neo-Nazi to address student groups in Ireland has come under attack from politicians and academics . |