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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 10 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 11 | Some weeks after Brezhnev 's initiative a Soviet statement quite explicitly linked it with the new American ’ arc of crisis ‘ strategy . ’ |
| 12 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 13 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 14 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |