Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 2 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 3 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 4 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 5 | In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament . |
| 6 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 7 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 8 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 9 | At 2 p.m. a big KC 135 tanker lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed for a mid-air rendezvous with the Eagle at 45,000 feet over the eastern seaboard . |
| 10 | It was night when he turned down the A1120 , drove through Yoxford and continued along the winding country road . |
| 11 | Atwater , born in Atlanta , Georgia , became involved in Republican politics while a student at the University of South Carolina and worked in the successful 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan . |
| 12 | We were offered several locations at the Biennale and decided on a small space in the best location thirty-six square metres ( as opposed to fifty or ninety ) opposite Galerie Cailleux . |
| 13 | General strikes in the public and private sectors in protest at sharp increases in food and utilities prices , low wages and a decision to dismiss 7,000 public employees by the end of the year took place in April , July , October and December and continued into the new year . |
| 14 | The accused left his clothes on a beach in Miami and resurfaced under a false identity in Australia . |
| 15 | They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows , then took a rowing boat on the River Dee . |
| 16 | This had been formed by Captain Buck and consisted of a dozen Jewish immigrants to Palestine , all of whom spoke fluent German . |
| 17 | During her researches she went to Lord 's to examine the immense collection which belongs to the MCC and went into the Long Room . |
| 18 | The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East . |
| 19 | Belated Prussian efforts to improve the dock facilities in Danzig and to modernise the port were aided considerably by the Great Flood of 1840 which altered the course of the Vistula and opened up a new river mouth through the delta . |
| 20 | Mr Jumblatt 's forces , together with the Syrians , were in the front line of the confrontation with Christian forces — General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ - which began in March and lasted until the Arab League-sponsored ceasefire last month . |
| 21 | He introduced the Bill on 4th March , 1859 ; it was given a Second Reading on 18th March and passed to a Select Committee which besides himself included Hall and Stirling . |
| 22 | Tom handed the reins to Carrie and leaped from the light cart , heading for a nearby cottage . |
| 23 | This sequence was confirmed by the 1968–9 excavation of an aisled workshop set end-on to Ermine Street and served by a metalled side-street 4.6 m ( 15 ft ) wide along its southern side . |
| 24 | They hurried through the long arch , dodging between the workers who were making their way to London Bridge Station , and then quickly crossed St Thomas 's Street and hurried through the high , wide gates of Guy 's Hospital . |
| 25 | James held out his hand to Stephen and said in a deep , confident voice , ‘ Good to see you , Stephen ; you look well . ’ |
| 26 | She opened the door for Matthew and looked across the grey yard . |
| 27 | He thought of little Rosamund and went to the high altar where the great missal lay . |
| 28 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 29 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 30 | We crossed one of the five big bridges built over the Seine and passed under the brooding mass of Notre Dame . |