Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 2 | In 1861 another private company founded the Great Northern Cemetery at Colney Hatch and served it by rail from King 's Cross . |
| 3 | It was hardly surprising , in these circumstances , that Nicholas abandoned a hair-brained scheme for launching a direct attack on Constantinople and replaced it with Paskevich 's proposals for a Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities , an Austrian occupation of Serbia and Herzegovina , a blockade of the Bosphorus , and an eventual Austro-Russian partition of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 4 | I hope you enjoyed the training course on Saturday and found it of value . |
| 5 | ‘ I was young and hot then ’ , she says , talking of her dancing days in LA , and later in the famous European tour of the 1950s of Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess that took her to La Scala . |
| 6 | Further , although Marseilles was under the rule of Childebert by this time , the latter 's governor Rathar , arrested Theodore and sent him to Guntram . |
| 7 | Aplin brought Eddy to Swinbrook and introduced him to Seb and Christian as the man ‘ who 's come here from London to help me solve the problem of our murderous highwayman ’ . |
| 8 | With everything ready , I telephoned Brigadier Catto in England and told him about Daffodil Quentin and the touching little scene in the winners ' circle . |
| 9 | Thomas David Pilcher , the head of the family at nineteen , brought his sisters and brother back to England and sent them to school . |
| 10 | Mr Taylor travelled back to Aberdeen and gave them to Murray . |
| 11 | Edward II particularly profited from the almost unctuous service of Pope Clement V : he it was who absolved the king from Archbishop Winchelsey 's curses and from his own various oaths ; it was Clement who appointed Reynolds , the king 's chaplain and treasurer , to Worcester and translated him to Canterbury to the exclusion of the eminently qualified capitular candidate , Thomas de Cobham ; above all , Clement alleviated Edward 's poverty with papal subsidies . |
| 12 | Of one preincarnation he is certain : he was , at some point during the Roman Empire , the director of a troupe of travelling comedians , the sort of plausible rogue who bought women in Sicily and turned them into actresses , a rowdy mixture of teacher , pimp and artist . |
| 13 | He was , however , failing to thrive , so Maureen and I decided to take him away from Barny and put him into care , so to speak . |
| 14 | And when she has fed our little William and tucked him into bed . ’ |
| 15 | After 10 years of torment , Kiranjit Ahluwalia , 36 , threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire . |
| 16 | Ray Butts made the first one for his own guitar player , then he took it to Nashville and showed it to Chet Atkins and Chet bought one . |
| 17 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 18 | Eventually Nellie got rid of Percy Rimmer and replaced him with Robert Clarke , who did Tiller 's stage effects . |
| 19 | Having built the CLI command file EE.CLI and queued it for action by the CLI , PROCE terminates and BBCBASIC(Z80) returns to the immediate mode . |
| 20 | Maybe the murderer knew nothing about the ransom , and had followed Newley or met him by chance at the gazebo . |
| 21 | Dimity opened the door to Harold and greeted him with cries of welcome . |
| 22 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Stevenson and a friend took a Nova car from North Skelton and abandoned it in Nottingham . |
| 23 | Rent and Norfolk now deserted Lancaster and accused him of sedition , and the king ordered the confiscation of all his property and the property of his supporters until they submitted unconditionally . |
| 24 | A last-minute goal from Billy Herd gave Cowdenbeath a 1-1 draw with Stirling Albion and saved them from relegation for a least a week . |
| 25 | ‘ When Murias fell , it was my brother Gaiar who saved Undry and carried it to Andernesse . |
| 26 | In the early nineteenth century , Lamartine stayed with the Damiani family in Jaffa and mentioned them in Voyage to the Orient , the same book in which he advertised the colonial possibilities of Palestine . |
| 27 | The BBC supplied part of the crew for the recording at Sandringham on Monday and copied it for distribution . |
| 28 | He had propped the tarpaulin trailer-cover against the Land Rover and weighted it with jerry cans to eliminate the wind that swept under the vehicle . |
| 29 | Pilot Gerard Gaillard landed the stricken aircraft on the A40 in the French Alps and steered it into crash barriers . |
| 30 | During a week of nightly attacks on foreigners in Saxony on Sept. 17-23 , police had to evacuate some 250 people , mainly from Romania , Yugoslavia , Vietnam and African countries , when right-wing elements including skinheads and neo-Nazis besieged their hostel in the town of Hoyerswerda and pelted them with Molotov cocktails , steel balls and other missiles . |