Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 32 | United seek values of a visionary : Ken Jones reflects on a tarnished ideal as Old Trafford struggles for a new sense of stability |
| 33 | Monsieur Messidor spoke in a thick French accent . |
| 34 | But Falkirk fought back , and were rewarded with four minutes to go , when Neil Duffy pounced on a loose ball in the box to beat John Martin and rescue a point . |
| 35 | But Falkirk fought back , and were rewarded with four minutes to go , when Neil Duffy pounced on a loose ball in the box to beat John Martin and rescue a point . |
| 36 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 37 | Of the scientists Margaret Sharman did research in the Department of Zoology at Oxford , Monica Shorten worked on rat control in the Bureau of Animal Population and Jean Stanier worked on a nutritional survey at the National Institute for Research in Dairying at Reading . |
| 38 | Corbett Farraday flinched like a spurned puppy . |
| 39 | At Manchester Ramiz Raja went to a dubious faint edge , and at Headingley some marginal decisions cost the Pakistanis dear . |
| 40 | EXCLUSIVE by Caroline Storah , crime reporter THE heartbroken father of Liverpool girl Jean Larkin killed in a gruesome double murder said today : ‘ How could they do this to our beautiful daughter ? ’ |
| 41 | The late David Penhaligon argued for a separate constituency in nineteen seventy eight and I argued the case in select committee in nineteen eighty eight and the most important fact about these responses is the sheer weight of numbers from democratically elected bodies in Cornwall . |
| 42 | Lucy Telford drove at a steady pace , her mind occupied by the task set for her by Aunt Bertha . |
| 43 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 44 | IN the third of our Night-Town series DAVID WALMSLEY speaks to a Samaritan volunteer about her work with the lonely and desperate . |
| 45 | Also new for is a range-topping automatic version of the Vento VR priced at a competitive £20 , |
| 46 | After the assault , and before she broke up with her boyfriend earlier this year , Miss C went to a German gynaecologist , in her own home town . |
| 47 | Best of all Miss Martineau writes with a wry humour — of the karaoke bar that bans her as a foreigner and then welcomes her lest her Japanese host lose face ; of the popularity of sado-masochistic pornography , but without pubic hair ; of the burglar who first took his shoes off . |
| 48 | ‘ My brother 's office , ’ Miss Evans said in a hushed voice and hurried them through into a narrow , dark hall with closed doors and a stair rising up . |
| 49 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 50 | In war it was only the poor who were expected to die and so the death of Earl Patrick came as a great shock to everyone . |
| 51 | Franklin D. Hauser sat in a large Regency chair , wearing evening dress , in the large living room at the front of the house . |
| 52 | He also claimed his party would ‘ kick-start ’ the Mike Potter , who stood for the SDP in the 1989 Richmond by-election , said he would n't be standing in the forthcoming general Labour 's Tony Blair , Tory Michael Fallon and Lib Dem 's Alan Beith clashed in a live TV debate over the NHS . |
| 53 | Yet Nigel Lawson continued with a vigorous supply-side policy of tax cutting . |
| 54 | Panton-Lewis and Forbes handed in 74s , with Stewart one stroke behind , as Japan 's Fusako Nagata led with a four-under-par round of 68 . |
| 55 | ‘ So , our Yankee maid has learned the ritual of tea-making , ’ Dr Neil said with a naughty grin . |
| 56 | Lucian Freud embarking on a mammoth artistic task which occupied several months of early morning work . |
| 57 | The village of Inverinate is bypassed and the head of Loch Duich reached as a green strath opens up ahead . |
| 58 | Samuel Barber 's Violin Concerto dwells on the instrument 's lyrical potential , something which the Chinese violinist Hu Kun manages to a haunting effect in the first movement and the suspended-animation Andante . |
| 59 | The very notion of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire speaks of a Northern conviction that the North is where class is , the real working class . |
| 60 | In fact the revised economic development strategy which Professor Lock probably does n't have a copy of , refers to inward inward investment as being desirable erm and is of critical importance but whilst it will be vigorously sort in this way it has to be said that the bulk of North Yorkshire suffers from a relative lack of financial incentives from Central Government in terms of whose regional policy does not have a priority . |