Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as William I also spoke to Jim . |
| 2 | The cause of all this activity was an illfated meeting in December , up north in the District of Columbia , between Mr Marion Barry , DC 's mayor , and Mr Charles Lewis , a St Thoman who once worked for Mr Barry 's government . |
| 3 | On the day the merger was announced , USL president Roel Pieper , who will report to Noorda , claimed a positive reaction to the move from AT&T 's old enemies Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM who always fretted over AT&T 's control , its hardware biases and its association with the bad blood that drove the industry apart . |
| 4 | Wassall made a £113.2m hostile bid for Evode which then entered into discussions with Laporte about a recommended bid of above £1 a share . |
| 5 | Clark was profoundly influenced by his service as a field medical officer in World War I. He also served in World War II , becoming a lieutenant-colonel . |
| 6 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the late great Jack who only went to London once in his life and did n't like it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | D'Arcy himself never went to Persia , but on 28 May 1901 his representative obtained a concession valid for sixty years . |
| 9 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 10 | A Colour Atlas of AIDS was the first book of its kind : written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain it comprehensively described in words and outstanding colour photography all aspects of this pandemic disease from epidemiology to transmission and prevention . |
| 11 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
| 12 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 13 | Even after the murder of Thomas Becket in his own cathedral on 29 December 1170 , there were churches in Aquitaine which still turned to Henry for help and protection . |
| 14 | But the real hero , not for the first time , was the veteran Welsh international Southall who twice saved from Holdsworth in the final minutes . |
| 15 | The credit for recognising from their contents that the ‘ small barrows ’ were not Roman or Danish , but burial places of the Saxon period , belongs to the Rev James Douglas who also excavated in Kent , from 1779 to 1793 . |
| 16 | Nearly all these men were poor except Seneca whose attitude was that of a poor man , and Tagore who never thought of money . |
| 17 | It was Louise who usually attended to Miriam , bringing her a ration of water and helping her nearer the fire at night . |
| 18 | In Lancashire they soon changed from wool , to mixed wool and cotton , and then purely to cotton . |
| 19 | When I put this to Charlie he almost choked with laughter . |