Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 2 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 3 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 4 | On Wednesday 5 March 1980 , I explored the practicalities of this course at a meeting in the department and on 10 March I minuted the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | In Lisbon I found the Portuguese captain , who took me in his ship to Brazil , all those years ago . |
| 6 | At LimoRent on Third Avenue I hired a six-door Jefferson with cocktail bar , TV and telephone . |
| 7 | At Cosford I received a sobering shock , being beaten by Lincoln Asquith in the 60 metres . |
| 8 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 9 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 10 | When the matter was debated in the Dáil , Fianna Fáil opposed the government view , and de Valera himself supported the local population 's opposition on the same religious grounds . |
| 11 | More successful were a ‘ Still-life with flowers on a ledge ’ by Juan de Arellano which achieved a new record for the artist of Pta108.4 million ( £592,400 ; $1.1 million ) , and a ‘ Pietà ’ by Luis de Morales ( lot 3 ) , also a record at Pta22.6 million ( £123,824 ; $230,314 , est . |
| 12 | As Nawal El Saadawi points out so clearly in her report from Cairo , it was in fact George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait which destroyed the very basis for negotiations . |
| 13 | George Stephenson himself drove the first passenger train on Tuesday 27 September 1825 . |
| 14 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 15 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |
| 16 | On this occasion we had no option but to begin our traverse on Saturday which meant a compulsory day of rest somewhere en route . |
| 17 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 18 | Kautsky himself defended the orthodox case in Neue Zeit — namely , Polish national liberation , while not as strategically important as before , was still revolutionary and anti-Tsarist ; any compromise on the issue would give aid and comfort to the Tsars . |
| 19 | It was only Shortreed 's family connections with the Elliots which guaranteed a friendly reception . |
| 20 | He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again . |
| 21 | Her hostility was matched by the range of influential figures including Lord Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer who reflected the popular distrust of foreigners prevalent at the time . |
| 22 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 23 | On the last occasion , Northland had just six seats available and the Sinn Fein councillor was Barney McFadden who fought the Rural ward this time around . |
| 24 | The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards . |
| 25 | A special mention to Blainead Bergin who produced the culinary classics on Saturday and Sunday — it was simply delicious ! . . |
| 26 | It was David who gave the grim reply to the secretary 's question . |
| 27 | Satisfied , Whitlock nodded to Masala who opened the back door . |
| 28 | The infamous John Carlos who made the black power gesture on the Olympic rostrum in 1968 became a source of inspiration : ‘ I said ‘ yeah , I 'd like to be there . ’ ’ |
| 29 | But it was Keynes who possessed the greater mobility and fire-power and in the end he succeeded in shifting the argument on to theoretical grounds of his own choosing . |
| 30 | And red-faced Brucie , brought back to steady the ship , blundered for the second goal , racing to the edge of his area to punch straight to Earle who sent a superbly-judged lob back over him from 25 yards . |