Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 2 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 3 | ‘ Me too , ’ Kelly interrupted with a sweet smile . |
| 4 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 5 | Newman asked in a low voice . |
| 6 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Hull levelled with an excellent try by Rob Nolan from a pass by Aussie Scott Gale . |
| 8 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 9 | On Aug. 2 Baker met with a Palestinian delegation in East Jerusalem led by Faisal al-Husseini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial PLO representative in Jerusalem . |
| 10 | William agreed with an uncharacteristic lack of enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 12 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 13 | On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt . |
| 14 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 15 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 16 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 17 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 18 | His grandparents used to be Gypsies and Jon realised from an early age that he would like to follow in their footsteps . |
| 19 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 20 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 21 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 22 | 1982 was the definitive Reading ROCK festival : Budgie , Iron Maiden and Michael Schenker headlined with a supporting cast of such acned arseholes as Terraplane and Praying Mantis , and old stagers Blackfoot and Tygers Of Pan Tang . |
| 23 | Alison presided in a relaxed way , finding things for people to do , drawing them out , drawing them in . |
| 24 | Jessica drew in a great breath of cool air . |
| 25 | Lance Corporal Gary Manning was one of nine servicemen who died when an RAF Hercules crashed during a low-level training flight in Scotland two weeks ago . |
| 26 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 27 | Hans Lewy is another scholar with whom one can disagree only at one 's peril , and Hans Lewy maintained in an admirable paper that at least what Josephus quotes is authentic Hecataeus . |
| 28 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 29 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 30 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |