Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Edmond made his will on 20th March the following year , exactly a month before his death . |
| 2 | While Angel slept , Sarah planned her future with heartbreaking realism . |
| 3 | Kriss Akabusi doubled his collection to two bronzes as our 4x400 relay world champions took third place behind the world-record breaking United States |
| 4 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 5 | When Auerbach held his first solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1956 Minton affirmed his confidence in this artist by buying a small painting of a head . |
| 6 | An archivist digging through the files had discovered a collection of fascinating links between the hospital and the Royal family since Queen Victoria became its patron in 1852 . |
| 7 | A late developer on the world championship trail , Cardus made his debut in 1983 , won his first GP in 1989 and led a world championship for the first time last season . |
| 8 | Avoiding the perils of the grand design , and eschewing broader questions of penal philosophy , the ACPS concentrated its attention on specific references . |
| 9 | In parliament , Lennox-Boyd restated his position on 11 May 1956 : ‘ If a general election is held Her Majesty 's Government will be ready to accept a motion calling for independence within the Commonwealth passed by a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature and then to declare a firm date for this purpose . ’ |
| 10 | She and her accupuncturist partner , Richard Spindler , are now in serious debt , they say , because Lloyds lent them money without proper advice and called in the loan after overcharging them . |
| 11 | Amir : Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah succeeded his cousin in 1977 . |
| 12 | Dr Neil wiped his hand on one of the pieces of towelling . |
| 13 | Buxton revealed his awareness of conflicting pressures and the source of his determination to pursue his own course in a letter to Althorp on the eve of the 1832 motion on emancipation . |
| 14 | The back of Leith Hill became our Paradise with home-made houses in and under pine trees and we needed no other occupation here while Mother sat near , reading or sewing and happy because we were . |
| 15 | Then , with characteristic egotism , on 19 August MacArthur used his position as Supreme Commander of all forces in the Far East to issue an order that no surrender might be taken from any Japanese commander and no landing attempted before the formal signing of the surrender in Tokyo Bay . |
| 16 | Lucy found her tongue at last . |
| 17 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 18 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 19 | Downes shook his head in anguished desperation . |
| 20 | His servant was trying to show the messenger how to hold a dagger , and Corbett shook his head in silent wonderment . |
| 21 | At a news conference on Dec. 8 , Vellayati and Dumas reaffirmed their governments'commitment to recent UN resolutions on the Gulf crisis , although Vellayati added that Iran would not participate in any war against Iraq or another country in the region . |
| 22 | On May 31 Bhutto postponed her visit to four Gulf States , planned in order to win Arab support over Kashmir . |
| 23 | Meredith turned her attention from Green and his companion to the rest of the assembly . |
| 24 | Now in the care of the National Trust Waddesdon began its facelift in 1986 . |
| 25 | Emecheta followed its success with Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price but when her publishers , Allison and Busby , went broke , she decided to publish the hardbacks herself and sell on the paperback rights . |
| 26 | Allan Roberts repeated his prevarication of 8th December in his summing-up speech for Labour at the conclusion of the 9th March 1988 Parliamentary debate . |
| 27 | When Charles formed an executive board to make decisions without reference to the shareholders , Koch saw his control of 74 per cent of the stock counting for nothing . |
| 28 | Unknown to Magellan and his crew — for they lived fully three centuries before Alfred Wegener advanced his theory of continental drift — the spot where they chanced upon the new ocean is one of the great tectonic landmarks of the world . |
| 29 | InterCity saw its future in push-pull electric traction , modernised High Speed Trains on non-electrified routes , and only a handful of diesellocomotive-hauled services on feeder and cross-country routes . |
| 30 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |