Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss F met Courtney at the Royal Free Hospital when she had her baby by caesarean section . |
| 2 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 3 | Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] . |
| 4 | Travellers , taking the main road from Paris to Madrid , entered Spain through the steep green hills of the Basque Provinces ; returning thither from the burnt highlands of Castile they were ‘ revived by the sight of a rich studied culture , a clean-looking smiling people , good furniture , neat houses , fine woods , good roads and safe bridges ’ . |
| 5 | That ai n't terrible they mentioned Swansea in the early sixties , but eh |
| 6 | That ai n't terrible they mentioned Swansea in the early sixties , but eh |
| 7 | When he is really inform it is a treat to watch his work on the leg side , and few who saw it will forget that catch which dismissed Paynter in the watery third Test at Old Trafford . ’ |
| 8 | When I visited Glasgow in the late '60s Robert Clow was manager of the University Shop in Gibson Street . |
| 9 | ‘ I was just warming up when I caught Francis with the short left , ’ Calzaghe said . |
| 10 | He was one of several noted British artists approached for work by John M. Gates , Director of Design to the American firm , Steuben Glass , and who visited London in the early 1950s . |
| 11 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 12 | Who played Chris in The Magnificent Seven ? |
| 13 | In short , there was not much in the end that separated Churchill from the official British position . |
| 14 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 15 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 16 | McLeish joined Catherine in the comfortable modern kitchen where they foraged companionably for coffee and milk , waiting until they heard Jennifer Morgan come down again . |
| 17 | She followed Will along the mean cobbled streets until he paused alongside a narrow alley . |
| 18 | With little of the didactic or combative attitude which characterized NME during the late 1970s , Q concentrates most successfully on giving its affluent , young male readers what they already know they want . |
| 19 | The Carolingians maintained close contact with Offa 's court and Alcuin congratulated Offa in the late 780s on his eagerness to encourage learning in his kingdom , sent greetings to Queen Cynethryth , and urged Ecgfrith not to be unworthy of his noble birth . |
| 20 | ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them . |
| 21 | The old pub looked slightly sinister standing dark against the night sky and Billy shivered as he followed Yanto through the open five barred gateway into the back garden of the ‘ Sally ’ , as it was called locally . |
| 22 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 23 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 24 | We named C as the right Cauchy-Green deformation tensor . |
| 25 | Keeping clear of the wharves where machinery roared and clanked as cargoes were being discharged from or loaded on to rust-streaked ships with flaking paint , Nathan tied Seawitch to the rickety wooden pontoon reserved for yachts in transit . |
| 26 | Polgar met Klara in the traditional Jewish way . |
| 27 | In 1950 , he represented France at the Informal International Conference of Christian Broadcasting in Chichester , UK , which was one of the forerunners of WACC . |
| 28 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 29 | After his release and recovery he joined a United Nations medical programme for Third World nations , and reached Celebes in the early 1950s as part of a team of sixteen other doctors and nurses . |
| 30 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |