Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 2 | But Gary made innumerable professions of faith from childhood onwards . |
| 3 | And even though the courtesy coaches which run three times a week to Ierapetra and Sitia got booked days in advance , local buses were reliable and cheap . |
| 4 | Back home , Mr B experienced frequent complications including pain , embarrassing incontinence , uncontrollable temper , and frustration because of being housebound , but he also regained most of his old mental ability . |
| 5 | Les Armstrong gave Gretna the lead with a shot from the edge of the box midway through the first half , but Shildon levelled fifteen minutes from time through Micky Taylor after being set up by Colin Blackburn . |
| 6 | Boullee demonstrated one aspect of vision and I mention it because it is so clear and so obvious . |
| 7 | Florin Raducioiu scored all four goals as Romania retained second place in group four with a 4–0 victory over the Faroe Islands . |
| 8 | His 1988 exhibition was staged simultaneously at identical shows in New York , Chicago and Cologne ( Koons made 18 pieces in triplicate ) and it quickly sold out , grossing $5 million , despite one critic denouncing the work as ‘ a recycling of kitsch taste for jaded sophisticates ’ . |
| 9 | When Josh had scraped the plates and gone to ‘ tea-tray ’ down the hill , David produced another tray with coffee , Clare 's own homemade croissants , and strawberry jam . |
| 10 | Indeed , after 1322 Edward made little use of parliament . |
| 11 | During its 1100 years of ascendance , from about 2500 BC to 1400 BC , the Minoan civilization of Crete used two forms of script . |
| 12 | Meredith telephoned several numbers without success . |
| 13 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 14 | Marcel Morongiu captured this idea of modesty in his recollections of Swedish roots . |
| 15 | The ADSW claimed current arrangements for arm 's length inspection were proving successful and no case had been made for the change . |
| 16 | Maisie showed worrying signs of interest in feminism . |
| 17 | Even in 1831 , at a moment of mass mobilisation , George Thompson on tour encountered conflict between dissenters in Dartford and then in Faversham confronted such distance between church and chapel abolitionists that he doubted the possibility of a lecture which could draw in cross-denominational support . |
| 18 | In doing so , Edward developed strong ties of sympathy and affection with the nobles , and the contrast with the court of Edward II could scarcely have been more marked . |
| 19 | Stok ordered two glasses of port wine . |
| 20 | Mr Gorbachev began this week to inch in that direction . |
| 21 | Gorbachev polled 3,411 votes in favour and 1,116 against , compared with 501 for Avaliani and 4,026 against . |
| 22 | The steward stretched out his hand and Corbett placed one piece of silver in it . |
| 23 | Genuflecting , the Reclusiarch carved generous parings of amber from one toe , then another , dropping these into the chalice . |
| 24 | Burmester examined 47 samples of lacquerware in the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart . |
| 25 | In the dark front of the car Molly felt another tingle of excitement , as though , in her childhood fantasies of detection she had found , at the scene of a crime , a clue which was going to unlock the whole mystery . |
| 26 | Writing of the Salon des Indépendants of 1914 , Apollinaire saw another influence at work : ‘ This year Futurism has begun to invade the Salon , and whereas from the reproductions they publish , the Italian Futurists appear to be ever more strongly influenced by the innovators of Paris ( Picasso and Braque ) , it would seem that a certain number of Parisian artists are being influenced by Futurist theories . ’ |
| 27 | Reserve team manager Willie Maddren offered Pallister words of comfort after a disastrous performance . |
| 28 | Stewart made the mistake of moving too far across his stumps and then trying to flick a straight ball to leg , while Hick went third ball after lunch to a sloppy drive at Kapil Dev and an edge to second slip . |
| 29 | Bryan Adams saw this lot in action in The Olympia last weekend and was well impressed . |
| 30 | The United States took similar action with respect to the Panama Canal . |