Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough .
2 As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton .
3 Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties
4 Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’
5 Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites .
6 Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess .
7 But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible .
8 His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party .
9 KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain .
10 The dual Oaks runner-up is not at her best on soft ground and trainer Michael Kauntze has left her in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on Sunday .
11 I 'm a second-year witch at the school , and this beastly girl called Ethel Hallow has changed me into a frog and I was — ’
12 My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole .
13 Bored with the custom of the bishop 's Easter letter , Hope has replaced it with a tabloid , just out .
14 Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’
15 I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her .
16 this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ .
17 Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile .
18 Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 .
19 One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time .
20 There 's been a cock-up in the first-year timetable , and Prof. Day 's summoned me to a meeting to sort it out .
21 Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's !
22 But Olsen has got you to the WC94 , so he must be doing something right ; - )
23 Dr Schoenwetter has found it in a layer of soil 6,000 years old — younger than in Panama , but still older than in Mexico .
24 Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices .
25 Once again , Patrick Eggle has provided me with an excuse to get a paper round , take in laundry and even think about selling my body .
26 He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her .
27 Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts .
28 A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) .
29 Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch .
30 The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage .
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