Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 2 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 3 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 4 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 5 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 6 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |
| 7 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |