Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 2 | John Morrissey put the home team ahead after eight minutes from a Kenny Irons pass and John Aldridge made it 2-0 eight minutes later after Irons rattled the bar . |
| 3 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 4 | BABY Renee looked smashing , her mother looked happy , but has dad Rod Stewart got something wrong with his wrists ? |
| 5 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 6 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 7 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 8 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 9 | He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites , but in an hour emptied his three victims ' purses . |
| 10 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 11 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 12 | As he groped his way under his seat , seeking somewhere to stow the paper , his fingers met something cold and hard and sharp . |
| 13 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
| 14 | As the elevator ascended Newman made his flat statement . |
| 15 | Within a few months of arriving in Blackpool , Luff announced his five year plan to transform the Undertaking , changed the livery to ivory and green , and introduced a streamlined tramcar as the prototype of a new fleet ( see p. 65 ) . |
| 16 | Fielding and the Autocrat made their different entrances . |
| 17 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 18 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 19 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 20 | Political Islam made its biggest splash not in the Middle East but in distant Algeria , and for reasons wholly unconnected with the Gulf war . |
| 21 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 22 | The difficulty was , Maddy made him nervous , and the more anxious he became , the stickier became his palms . |
| 23 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 24 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 25 | But Will made it clear he 'll be happy to work with me and was keen that we all pull together . ’ |
| 26 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 27 | In the 85th minute however Bangor made it six . |
| 28 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 29 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 30 | Defender , Shaun Taylor made it 4 . |