Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state .
2 She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court .
3 692 , Wilfrid took refuge with Aethelred who made him bishop of the Middle Angles ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ; HE IV , 23 ) and stood by him when Wilfrid refused to submit to Aldfrith and Archbishop Beorhtwald at the council of Austerfield c .
4 Swansea 's victory kept them top of the First Division and was another display worthy of any defending champions .
5 But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages .
6 His 62 wickets at 7.28 put him top of the Minor County averages .
7 When the Constituent Assembly elected him President of the Provisional Government , eighty per cent of the public approved ( according to an opinion poll . )
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