Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 2 | Newman asked in a low voice . |
| 3 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 4 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 5 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 6 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 7 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 8 | On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt . |
| 9 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 10 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 11 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 12 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 13 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Smithkins lives in the top flat with a magnificent view ; he 's a bachelor . ’ |
| 15 | Alison presided in a relaxed way , finding things for people to do , drawing them out , drawing them in . |
| 16 | Jessica drew in a great breath of cool air . |
| 17 | Hans Lewy is another scholar with whom one can disagree only at one 's peril , and Hans Lewy maintained in an admirable paper that at least what Josephus quotes is authentic Hecataeus . |
| 18 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 19 | The only thing Stewart has in a nice hair-style … so nice he wo n't head the ball . |
| 20 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 22 | What is the point of having Van Goch hanging in a public building if people with disabilities are not provided with proper access facilities . |
| 23 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 25 | Nellie asked in a worried tone of voice . |
| 26 | Johnny sits in a quiet corner of the pub with the Echo crossword and a rum and black . |
| 27 | Along with the hundred-headed DRAGON Ladon , the Hesperides lived in a beautiful orchard , referred to by Robed Greene in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay ( 1598 ) : |
| 28 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 29 | This production was only a qualified achievement , but Eyre succeeded in a different vein when he brought out the kindliness and charm of Harold Brighouse 's Hobson 's Choice at the Haymarket ( 1983 ) , in which Penelope Keith appeared to splendid effect . |
| 30 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |