Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head . |
| 3 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 4 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 5 | Mrs Smith 's Arnold had confirmed she took her gloves home on Friday and threw them in the dustbin and … |
| 6 | Mr Sisulu , now 77 , was six years older than Mr Mandela and became something of a mentor to him on his arrival in Johannesburg in 1941 . |
| 7 | Cleo ran to Lucy and hit her around the knees with the balloon shouting ‘ Doon … doon . ’ |
| 8 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 9 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 10 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |
| 11 | Juliet smiled at Donna and followed him from the room . |
| 12 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 13 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
| 14 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 15 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 16 | Mrs Lennox threw an arm around Maggie and drew her into the kitchen . |
| 17 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 18 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 19 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 20 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 21 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 22 | Another one snapped out of the melée around Hrun and caught him around the waist . |
| 23 | Almost the first thing she said was that a madman had escaped from Rampton and killed someone in the kitchen . |
| 24 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 25 | The American occupation misunderstood the nature of the unrest in south Korea and attributed it to the machinations of the communists . |
| 26 | A POWERFUL low drive by Nick Summerbee earned England a 1–0 win over Scotland and eased them into the final of the Under-21 tournament in Toulon last night . |
| 27 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 28 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |
| 29 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 30 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |