Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 2 | Stauder referred to ‘ this exorbitantly rewarded and grotesque event which gives the winner more prize money than Boris Becker has made this year ’ . |
| 3 | Think what a different world it would be if Anthony Cheetham had done that instead of starting Century . |
| 4 | If Mr Bumble had known this earlier , he might have told a different story , but now it was too late . |
| 5 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 6 | But I wonder indeed if Mr Harman has got that something special . |
| 7 | ‘ even if Mr. Shephard had exercised some dominating influence over her , there is no evidence to show that the bank knew that he would or might bring such influence to bear , or that they used Mr. Shephard in order that he should exert pressure on his wife … |
| 8 | If Sir Alastair has broken this spell , as I most sincerely hope he has , the Chartered Institute may , after more than three quarters of a century ‘ provide a source of authoritative views on transport for communication to Government and the community ’ ; just as its founders intended . |
| 9 | Because Sister Wilson had spent much of her life nursing the sick and the poor , she had their confidence and they flocked to the hospital . |
| 10 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 11 | Since Mr Clinton has said many times that he will not send ground troops to Bosnia until there is peace , the protection he has in mind will presumably consist of air power , no more . |
| 12 | John Sessions was far from his best on the show ( and that 's saying something ) , while Julian Clary has seen many better days . |
| 13 | DEREK Hatton last night attacked his trial as a lot of nonsense over three grotty pieces of land ‘ that no-one since Adolf Hitler had shown any interest in ’ . |
| 14 | It came down to three grotty , scrappy bits of land that no-one since Adolf Hitler had shown any interest in … |
| 15 | Obviously , the pitch had been prepared for the spinners , but since West Indies had prepared many of their own pitches for their speed merchants they could hardly complain . |
| 16 | Thus to date the era since Bretton Woods has seen several major changes in the fortunes of the dollar , which is still by far the most important reserve currency in the international monetary system . |
| 17 | He wondered whether Dr Ali had confided this fact to Class 2 . |
| 18 | It is understood the line was set up by his close friend Stephanie King , from Nottingham , but it is not yet clear whether Reggie Kray has broken any prison rules . |
| 19 | The verdict of the City on whether Mr Lamont has done enough to curb public spending will be delivered when the markets open today . |
| 20 | When Herr Nordern had finished some of her iciness had melted . |
| 21 | ‘ My mother advised me to come , as Dr Heatherton has taken some trouble on my behalf . |
| 22 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 23 | But , as Ms Topaz has reminded all fair goers in her pre departure interdepartmental memo , this is not a frivolous junket . |
| 24 | And as Chia Lin had commented many centuries later , ‘ An army without secret agents is like a man without eyes or ears . ’ |