Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senna , clearly struggling , was then passed also by Alesi and Brundle and fell back to sixth before retiring after 17 laps . |
| 2 | ‘ How do we know James was n't taken prisoner by Surrey and hustled down to some secret prison in England ? ’ |
| 3 | After a visit by Wilson in November 1888 the Liverpool seamen , led by the " diffident' William Nicholson , stopped work on 20 December and remained out until 18 February 1889 . |
| 4 | Like the decrees by Antiochus III , the aretology concerning Heliodorus is a survival of the well-mannered days in which the Seleucids subsidized the Jewish Temple and backed out in good or bad order if they encountered resistance . |
| 5 | After winning a third trainer 's title in the 1983–84 season he left Yorkshire and took over as private trainer to Robert Sangster at Manton . |
| 6 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 7 | It sounds fantastically timeless , like you just jumped into the Tardis and came out in another place and era entirely . |
| 8 | Fees can be obtained from Medicare and topped up with private insurance . |
| 9 | The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday . |
| 10 | Rachel Sylvester spent the summer helping orphans in Mozambique and came back with graphic and horrific reports of the tragedies resulting from the civil war . |
| 11 | It was a calm , windless and hazy morning as we left Clapham and headed up through two dark tunnels along the old Drove Road of Thwaite Lane , a continuation of the medieval monastic highway that crossed the Dales , linking the lands of Fountains Abbey . |
| 12 | The 36 would-be refugees — including Serbians , Croatians and Bosnians — were refused asylum in Britain and deported back to other countries , mainly Belgium and Germany , under the so-called ‘ safe third country ’ rule . |
| 13 | The trendy York paving has disappeared from streets in Manchester and turned up in conservation areas in the South where it is in short supply . |
| 14 | Using clients referred from across the city , they were assigned to either ICT or GCT and followed up at one , two , three , and six months . |
| 15 | Loulou danced twice with Flavia , once with Therese and twice with Jeannine and sat down for good after that ; Flavia danced also with Giles , with Paul and with Therese who was able to show the steps . |
| 16 | ‘ David became ‘ David Hockney ’ when he went to America and came back with blond hair and a great new self-confidence and a much more declared homosexuality . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | Then , in 1886 , he returned to Vienna and set up in private practice as a consultant on nervous diseases . |
| 19 | The first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre took place in June and passed off without any major incidents . |
| 20 | The Dental News newsletter , issued by the Princeton Dental Resource Centre , based in New Jersey and picked up by dental patients in waiting rooms all over America suggested that an ingredient of cocoa , tannin , had been shown to inhibit the formation of plaque on the teeth , therefore helping stop cavities . |