Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remarkable fact led Roger Penrose to propose the cosmic censorship hypothesis , which might be paraphrased as " God abhors a naked singularity . " |
| 2 | There is no risk , thank God , of Andrew Lloyd Webber wanting to enter the Commons , a place of meagre payment , but the Guardian created a fearful frisson when it wickedly asked Bernard Manning to fill the first of its ‘ How I am Voting ’ slots , and drew a mouthful of club-night nastiness . |
| 3 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 4 | Reluctantly , Kevin helped Sergeant Davidson to get the senseless Liam out of the door and into the morning air . |
| 5 | Mr Milosevic , blamed by the West for the fighting which swept the northern Balkans following the breakup of Yugoslavia , helped Mr Vance get the Bosnian Serbs to accept a peace plan during talks in Geneva in January . |
| 6 | He used Pareto analysis to identify the principal cause as a loose loading arm . |
| 7 | In 1979 John Coplans , then director of the Akron Art Museum , invited Lee Friedlander to photograph the northern industrial belt of the United States . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for the member of parliament , however , when he approached Lord Ilay to secure the desired permission for young Buchanan to succeed to the office of keeper , his request was denied on the ground that this would be enough to make the post hereditary . |
| 9 | Luckily , her husband found George Brownlee to immortalize the middle-aged bear in wood . |
| 10 | Former Northern Ireland international O'Neill , who helped Nottingham Forest lift the European Cup in 1980 , has taken Wycombe 13 points clear in the race for Football League status . |
| 11 | During the last week of February , Professor Stuart Littlejohn visited New Orleans to attend the international conference on Grouting , Soil Improvement and Geosynthetics , as guest of the American Society of Civil Engineers . |
| 12 | He had earlier fought with the naval armoured car brigade which landed at Walfish ( now Walvis ) Bay in South-West Africa and helped Gen Botha to take the German colony . |
| 13 | Exasperated by this foolishness , the Collector told Mr Simmons to distribute the extra food with the rations as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 15 | So I asked Sir Angus to answer the basic questions he tells scrutineers to apply . |
| 16 | It also authorized UN agents to monitor the main pipeline designated to transport oil from northern Iraq to Turkey . |
| 17 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 18 | He heard Miss Thorne open the outer door of the hall . |
| 19 | Before rehearsal began Desmond Fairchild ordered the new girl , Stella , to fetch him a packet of cigarettes from the porter 's desk . |
| 20 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 21 | The first inkling that anything was wrong came when Prestatyn station box rang Chester Control to query the foreign engine running through his platform , but it was out of section before the reply was received . |
| 22 | Delegates in Torquay , under the direction of BAIE president Barry Isted , watched Mr Davies receiving the new Communicator of the Year trophy , a wooden bowl provided by Digital , from Digital managing director Chris Conway in the LWT television studios in London . |
| 23 | Brendan Batson , assistant secretary of the PFA , urged Barnet players to reveal the verbal and physical threats Flashman is alleged to have made to them . |
| 24 | His father , Henry Hoare I , bought the Stourhead estate in 1717 and employed Colen Campbell to build the new house , which was completed in 1724 . |
| 25 | Palmerston took the defeat as a vote of no confidence and tendered the Government 's resignation to the Queen on 21st February , 1858 , and she immediately asked Lord Derby to form the new Government . |
| 26 | On his deathbed at Pentecost 337 he was baptized by a bishop whose sympathies happened to be Arian ; much later legend made Pope Silvester bestow the lifegiving baptismal water . |
| 27 | The Graduate looked all set to be his first , but Ernest Lehman , who was producing and adapting Edward Albee 's acid drama of marital non-bliss , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? , persuaded Warner Bros to hire the untried Nichols . |
| 28 | There were some highlights from Bristol , some back-row charges , a 50-yard passing movement which saw Doug Woodman scoring the first of his two tries , and Paul Collings making a solo break for the third . |
| 29 | Anyone who saw Bernhard Langer miss the 18th putt and hand the Ryder Cup to the Americans will never forget his look of anguish , but here at GTF we prefer to remember Bernhard 's look of happiness as he opened Kitzbühel 's 18 hole championship golf course . |
| 30 | From her vantage point inside the doorway , Lily saw Mrs Arbuthnot open the front door and slam it after her . |