Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about 10.45 when he met William Tidbury on the large track or roadway that skirts the woods . |
| 2 | The turning point for him and the Soviet Union came in nineteen eighty five , when he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as the General Secretary ; within one year , he 'd begun in earnest his reform programme , familiarising the world as well as his fellow Soviet citizens with words such as peristroika and glasnost . |
| 3 | It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa . |
| 4 | Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine , not renowned as a shrinking violet , entered Downing Street from the bottom end , took one look at the array of pressmen and crept into No 12 , which has an interior walkway to No 10 . |
| 5 | The Saturday evening of Karlinsky 's address provided Dora Klein with the perfect opportunity of drawing attention to her status as the President 's wife . |
| 6 | When Home succeeded Macmillan , he moved Edward Heath from the Foreign Office ( where he had been Home 's number two ) to the Board of Trade . |
| 7 | Derek Williams , who beat Hughroy Currie for the vacant European heavyweight title on Tuesday night , wasted no time yesterday in throwing a gauntlet in the direction of the British champion , Gary Mason . |
| 8 | In 1886 Lottie Dod , aged fourteen , beat Maud Watson for the first time in the final at the Bath tournament to win the West of England title . |
| 9 | A psalmist in Biblical times wrote of lifting one 's eyes to the hills but on the day we visited Croagh Patrick on the western seaboard of Co Mayo , Ireland thousands were doing more than just look . |
| 10 | Paul Mason , on the right , found Mixu Paatelainen on the left edge of the St Johnstone area . |
| 11 | Jim Courier dismissed Amos Mansdorf by the same score but Michael Chang dropped a set before overwhelming Todd Woodbridge in the final set to win 6–4 , 1–6 , 6–0 . |
| 12 | FRED COUPLES won his first tournament since last year 's US Masters when he beat Robert Gamez at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off in the Honda Classic at Fort Lauderdale , Florida . |
| 13 | A straw poll in Richmond yesterday showed that , of 53 women who favoured the Liberal Democrats , only two mentioned Mr Ashdown as the principal reason for their choice . |
| 14 | The remarks have outraged the Liberal Democrats , who defeated Mr Taylor in the marginal seat of Cheltenham . |
| 15 | He beat Lee Trevino in the final three and two . |
| 16 | On the British front , Jeremy Bates , who last year drew Boris Becker in the 1st round , this time drew Edberg , and was soundly beaten . |
| 17 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 18 | His American career took off in 1891 , when he beat Jack Dempsey in the thirteenth round to win the world middleweight title . |
| 19 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 20 | English rose Lysette Anthony on the scandal-hit director 's darkest movie |
| 21 | It was at Olivier 's suggestion that producer Irving Asher cast Peter Finch in the male lead , while Vivien Leigh decided to ignore her husband 's advice and accepted Paramount 's offer . |
| 22 | Raven regarded Karl Barth as the worst menace to sane rational thinking . |
| 23 | The news that Metropolitan Josef Slipyi , Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church , had been released from his Soviet labour camp and was on his way to Rome , helped Pope John in the final stages of the preparation of Pacem in Terris . |
| 24 | They found Albert Goodenache on the fourth floor . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough 's Andy Green hopes for a repeat of last season 's result at the same stage , when he stopped George Naylor in the second round . |
| 26 | He went on to score tries in two of the three Tests when Great Britain beat New Zealand in the 1989 series . |
| 27 | Previous films about the Dutch painter have tried to circumvent this problem in various ways : Vincente Minnelli 's Lust For Life cast Kirk Douglas as the tortured artist and used broad , melodramatic strokes ; Paul Cox 's reverential Vincent used only extracts from Van Gogh 's letters ; Robert Altman 's Vincent And Theo dished the dirt on Van Gogh 's quixotic personality while never losing sight of his extraordinary artistic gift . |
| 28 | BORIS BECKER yesterday beat John McEnroe for the eighth time in 10 meetings . |
| 29 | McManus , who beat Jimmy White in the previous round , failed to bother the scorer as Parrott fired in runs of 48 and 31 for a 94–0 first frame win . |
| 30 | ‘ Michael was only seventeen years old when he played Ivan Lendl in the French Open in 1989 . |