Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 2 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 3 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 4 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 5 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 6 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 7 | The number of part-time university students on degree courses ( other than OU students ) rose in the same period by 36% ( DES , 1989a , Table 1 ) . |
| 8 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 9 | As late as October 1958 Khrushchev referred in the same breath to ’ the tragic fate of Guatemala' and ’ the heroic but unequal struggle of the Cuban people ’ . |
| 10 | On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day . |
| 11 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 12 | This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes . |
| 13 | Perhaps the biggest surprise was the amount of fun the Fiesta provided on the latter type of roads , thanks to a willing engine and gearbox , precise if slightly heavy steering and those narrow tyres which , nevertheless , provided exactly the right amount of grip . |
| 14 | Earlier today a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 15 | And earlier a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 16 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 17 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 18 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 19 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
| 20 | Did n't we have a black guy who played for a few season in the second division with Revie before the real glory years . |
| 21 | Atletico scored through an own goal from Juan Carlos . |
| 22 | In the redevelopments of the 1880s Na Františku came under the same threat of destruction as the ghetto but was saved by the efforts of the Association for the Rehabilitation of the Convent of the Blessed Agnes . |
| 23 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 24 | Procyclic trypanosomes were harvested in mid log phase , pelleted , washed once with Zimmerman 's Post Fusion Medium ( 27 ) , and resuspended in the same buffer at a concentration of 2.10 7 ml -1 . |
| 25 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 26 | Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job . |
| 27 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
| 28 | Some of these stories were undoubtedly true — I definitely knew some lads who played in the same city of Leeds schoolboys team as him , etc . |
| 29 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |
| 30 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |