Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 2 | The Halifax withdrew a couple of fixed rates on Friday and replaced them with higher rates . |
| 3 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 4 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 5 | She rented the Duchess of Norfolk 's mansion in St James 's Square and filled it with red and white roses for a party . |
| 6 | He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate . |
| 7 | ‘ For what we are about to receive , ’ said Uncle Philip and left it at that . |
| 8 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 9 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 10 | I do n't want to end it like this , ’ said Foreman , who won the world title in 1973 from Joe Frazier and lost it in 1974 to Muhammad Ali . |
| 11 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 12 | An introductory epigram states that Clearchus copied them exactly in Delphi and brought them to this remote place of Bactriana . |
| 13 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 14 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 15 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |
| 16 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 17 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 18 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |