Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 2 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 3 | It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos . |
| 4 | Dustin left to join them at 11.30 . |
| 5 | Steve Cauthen had partnered Pebbles in her first three races of the season but Pat Eddery had ridden her with sublime confidence in the Champion Stakes when Cauthen was claimed for Slip Anchor , and it was Eddery who had the mount at Aqueduct . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ said Miranda , remembering that Angus had warned her about this . |
| 7 | But according to a report in The Builder , some architects protested against the competition , while P. L. Hardwick wanted to limit it to British architects . |
| 8 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 9 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 10 | Well , Pete decided to say nothing on that subject . |
| 11 | Katherine struggled to free herself from those fingers which gripped her too fiercely , from that intelligence which probed into her . |
| 12 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 13 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 14 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 15 | Louis Pasteur had observed it in 1877 , but even he was not the first to do so . |
| 16 | Roirbak had mistaken her for another boy : a skinny , awkward creature , but pretty in her own way , he conceded . |
| 17 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 18 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 19 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 20 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 21 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 22 | Once , a fortnight later , when Simon had invited her to another test day , and then in July at the British Grand Prix . |
| 23 | Accordingly when Bishop Mauger attempted to visit them in 1202 , both parties , bishop and monks , believing in the rightness of their positions , appealed to the pope , and the abbey also appealed to the archbishop of Canterbury for tuition , or protection of this appeal , while matters were pending . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 25 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 26 | Every morning , Mandru liked to indulge himself in religious spectacle , although the Ixmaritians all doubted whether this was inspired by faith and devotion . |
| 27 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 28 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 29 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 30 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |