Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 2 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 3 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 4 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 5 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 6 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |
| 7 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 8 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 9 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 10 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 11 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 12 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 13 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 14 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 15 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 16 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 17 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 18 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 19 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 20 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 21 | He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies . |
| 22 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 23 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 24 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 25 | Some have attributed it to the old French torques in reference to Turkey by way of which the stone reached Europe , and others to the Persian word piruzeh . |
| 26 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 27 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 28 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 29 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 30 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |