Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below her , tucked into a natural bowl where a lush green valley met the aquamarine of the Atlantic Ocean , nestled the tiny fishing village of Praia do Carvoeiro . |
| 2 | Eventually they met the Royal in the final . |
| 3 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 4 | The moment they arrived in Parson 's Green Penry rushed Leonora to the Range Rover , gave her a moment to fish out a gift-wrapped package from the bag containing her change of clothes , then stowed the latter in the car . |
| 5 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 6 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 7 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 8 | The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation , probably in the wake of Mr Marshall , when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence . |
| 9 | It was universally accepted that no man married merely for love , and many men and women no doubt made the best of the circumstances , and fell in love with their partners . |
| 10 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 11 | In the early 1890s , in loyal imitation of the Queen , Gladstone made the first of a number of visits . |
| 12 | Allerton Bywater is hardly on the rock map and the locals made the most of a rate visit to their town , greeting every song with enthusiastic clapping . |
| 13 | Accordingly , Leicestershire made the most of an attack which contained only two seamers , neither of whom were able to make the ball lift above the knee-cap , and three spinners of uncertain intent . |
| 14 | During our cool weather short stay , we made the most of the water facilities — shoots , slides , exciting rapids and a wave pool , Jacuzzis , saunas , solariums and steam baths are also available , as are indoor badminton and bowling , archery , roller skating , windsurfing , canoeing , snooker , horse riding and tennis . |
| 15 | I had no razor or toiletries , but made the most of the bathroom shower and hot water and began to feel better . |
| 16 | Yet it did , and the batsmen made the most of the conditions . |
| 17 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 18 | The closure notice was peremptory and we made the most of the fact that a poor , struggling little community service radio station , without benefit of commercial revenue , serving the southern and central parts of the province from gratis studios and operated by a completely voluntary staff , was being victimized by a powerful political federal body without regard to the expressed wishes of the people . |
| 19 | On nice days we made the most of the sunshine and moved the bench into the garden where we assembled the clocks , sitting in our bikinis . |
| 20 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 21 | She inserted the first in the machine and pressed the button . |
| 22 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 23 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |
| 24 | Nine months later , Francis ' team dominated Canadian sprinting , and the following year Angella Taylor became the first of the group to reach world class . |
| 25 | In 1874 Elliot became the first of the coal industry 's business leaders to receive a baronetcy . |
| 26 | In the U.S.A. , a new rocket for space exploration , called ‘ Little Joe ’ was launched in May 1964 , and it became the first in a series under the name of ‘ Apollo ’ . |
| 27 | This week , Germany 's Quelle group — seen as an enthusiastic bargain hunter in Britain 's underdeveloped mail-order sector — became the latest in a stream of prospective purchasers to have looked but walked away . |
| 28 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 29 | Mr Bouterse asked the Dutch for a visitor 's visa in December . |
| 30 | In 1907 , now working on his own , Freeman produced the first of the Doctor Thorndyke stories , the novel The Red Thumb Mark , whose plot revolved around the ‘ forgery ’ of a set of fingerprints by an ingenious mechanical device . |