Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tate & Lyle benefited from a broker recommendation — reportedly by Warburgs — and the shares rose 16 to 421p in active trade . |
| 2 | Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government . |
| 3 | To savour real Apfelstrudel or Sachertorte served on a silver tray by a waistcoated white-aproned waiter is to taste style itself . |
| 4 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 5 | And Newland responded with a succession of brave saves to keep Argyle afloat before two-goal Paul Dalton killed off battling Dorking . |
| 6 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 7 | Auchinleck 's attacks against the German and Italian positions along the Alamein line had petered out , and Churchill determined on a change of command in the Middle East . |
| 8 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 9 | Peggy jerked her head in the direction of the ceiling , and Victoria said on a laugh , ‘ Yes , yes , I 'll take her tea up . |
| 10 | Rosie and Jim went to a puppet show did they ? |
| 11 | Dhani and Ian broke into a run , taking the high altar steps three at a time . |
| 12 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 13 | In global terms , the industrial advance of the United States and Germany insisted on a reappraisal of Britain 's position in the world economy , while the muddled fortunes of the Boer War came to underline the fragility of the British Empire in military terms . |
| 14 | But Vézelay and Saint-Gilles lay on a route to an even more notable city than Compostela , to Rome itself . |
| 15 | Ace , Defries and Bernice fell in a heap . |
| 16 | Gurder , Angalo and Pion sat under a bush . |
| 17 | Charlotte and Branwell wrote about a country called Angria , while Emily and Anne wrote about a land called Gondal . |
| 18 | To confuse the issue even more , at least from Catt 's point of view , her letter from Gedge , Solowka and Gregory arrived at a time when she thought that her role in the group was about to become more prominent . |
| 19 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 20 | The door opened and Penman said in a voice that was not entirely neutral , ‘ Mr Swinton , Miss Alexandra . ’ |
| 21 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 22 | Four of these infants are buried in Mauchline churchyard , where Burns and Jean lived in a house in Castle Street , now a museum . |
| 23 | And Jean reached for a monkey-wrench that lay nearby . |
| 24 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 25 | They were both astonished and Lomas stopped for a moment to stare at the floor . |
| 26 | Boon and Border added 117 before the captain became Kapil Dev 's 399th Test scalp , and after the early departure of Jones , Boon and Moody combined in a stand of 77 . |
| 27 | Malcolm also made that contact when he and Bernie went on a trip up north , searching round textile factories for old fifties cloth to use for making up zoot suits . |
| 28 | Montini agreed with the students that such an alliance could only prove disastrous for the Church , and Rossi resigned as a protest . |
| 29 | Fernando drove on and Ruth lapsed into a silence of awe . |
| 30 | In January 1991 , following a visit by a Mexican commercial delegation , Mexico and Cuba agreed on a formula to help Cuba repay its external debt , including US$350,000,000 owed to Mexico , through new collaborative trade initiatives in tourism , pharmaceutical and industrial ventures . |