Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terah 's three sons are named , and their home-town given as Ur of the Chaldeans . |
| 2 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 3 | They were caught off Scilly by the Mounts Bay luggers , effective fish catchers but not rigged for speed . |
| 4 | Firstly he overlooked the fact that the European parliament had consistently voted for Brussels as a meeting place . |
| 5 | However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races . |
| 6 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 7 | Tasse , adoring , elderly Tasse , had looked after Marian on the journey that led to her death . |
| 8 | Police are urging horse owners and stables to be on their guard , and they 're trying to trace two men seen parked near Natton in a car . |
| 9 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 10 | A group of thirty horsemen had come against Forteviot from the east an hour before , and had tried to set fire to it with burning arrows , and strike down the defenders with slingshot and spears . |
| 11 | The vote was carried against Stokes by a majority of well over two to one ; but Noel-Baker later argued in a letter to Attlee that ‘ the overwhelming majority of the Constituency Party delegates were against ‘ Fight for Freedom ’ and Vansittartism' . |
| 12 | It was disclosed during June that mass graves containing more remains of about 15,000 Polish Army officers massacred by their Soviet captors in 1940 had been located near Kharkov in the east Ukraine and at Mednoye near Kalinin in western Russia . |
| 13 | In France , according to Libération , 133 of the parliamentary deputies of the Gaullist part of the new coalition government voted against Maastricht in the referendum last September , compared with only 89 in favour . |
| 14 | Will he refute the Prime Minister 's suggestion that inward investment has come into Wales as a result of lower personal taxation ? |
| 15 | My last winter sortie into the Cairngorms had resulted in three days and nights trapped with Pete by a blizzard of historic proportions on the squalid mud floor of the Etchachan hut . |
| 16 | After we told Joe , he wrote to us explaining he had mixed up AZT with the cancer drug Interferon , known as IFN . |
| 17 | Peter was probably martyred in Rome during the persecutions of Nero in 64–5 AD . |
| 18 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
| 19 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 20 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 21 | The US gear filtering into Britain has been joined by Australian , European and Japanese workwear , of which the most notable brands have come from Australia via a group of Notting Hill-based boys calling themselves PIL . |
| 22 | The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service . |
| 23 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 24 | Following the violence in Rostock on Aug. 22-26 [ see p. 39065 ] and attacks on a hostel in Cottbus and two other Brandenburg towns on Aug. 29-30 , a hostel for asylum seekers was attacked in Eisenhüttenstadt during the nights of Sept. 4-5 and 5-6 , and 200 police and border troops were called in . |
| 25 | His move signalled some healing of a serious rift in the party , which had deepened in July during the passage of legislation on the media , when five ministers belonging to De Mita 's left-wing faction of the party had resigned from the government [ see p. 37624 ] . |
| 26 | A decision is expected before March on the barrage company 's application for a place in the non-fossil fuel obligation under the new Electricy Act , which gives the right to sell electricity to the privatised grid . |
| 27 | The whole Palestinian resistance was evicted from Jordan within a year , amid widespread bloodshed in which perhaps as many as 3,000 refugees perished . |
| 28 | He was the sixth child of working-class parents , Daniel Maclean , crofter and later potter , and his wife Annie McPhee , the grandson on one side of crofters evicted from Mull in the Highland clearances , on the other of migrants to industrial Strathclyde . |
| 29 | That same eighth chapter of Acts records the spread of the gospel by informal missionaries , men and women evicted from Jerusalem by the persecution which followed Stephen 's death . |
| 30 | This was equalled in March with a gain of 45% on the same month last year . |