Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [noun prp] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Tuesday 20th Bob had blown away so at 5.30am we heard the clang of the chow bell to awaken us and we made our preparations to get underway . |
| 2 | In July 1338 Edward had set out on campaign in Flanders , leaving the realm in the charge of a keeper , the eight-year-old duke of Cornwall , and a council , on which Richard Bintworth , bishop of London , and Robert Wodehouse , archdeacon of Richmond , sat as chancellor and treasurer respectively . |
| 3 | By the time he left Tonbridge in July 1940 Keyes had written more than seventy poems , discovered in a manuscript book shortly after the war ; many are inevitably juvenilia , but ‘ Nefertiti ’ , written when he was seventeen , marks an advance towards maturity , and his poem ‘ The Buzzard ’ , the last to be written at Tonbridge , is probably his most accomplished schoolboy work . |
| 4 | AFTER the euphoria of Ireland 's amazing victory over England last Sunday had died away , rugby followers throughout the British Isles waited with keen anticipation for the announcement of the Lions party for New Zealand later this summer . |
| 5 | By August 1982 CSM had received over 3500 reports of adverse reactions to Opren . |
| 6 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |