Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the fact that he was a very junior cleric with little political experience limited his ability to mount a serious challenge to the existing leadership of Rafsanjani and the other leading " pragmatist " , former President Seyed Ali Khamenei . |
| 2 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 3 | Er I feel a bit plagued my mouth ul ulcers for about three weeks now . |
| 4 | But elsewhere the poet prefers direct attack , as in 152 : Obscure though the details may be ( have both the Poet and the Mistress broken their marriage-vows ? is the Friend implicated ? ) , the man certainly vaunts over the woman . |
| 5 | By contrast , the Reagan Administration justified its invasion of Grenada by pointing to the danger faced by a small group of American medical students , a rationale that was rebutted by international law bodies . |
| 6 | and the Scottish Court of Session agreed that his employers ' prejudice justified their sacking of him ; Susan Shell was sacked from her job as a care assistant by Barking 's Labour council , when it was discovered that she was lesbian and she refused to resign . |
| 7 | From the beginning , the Association limited its activities to the 21 small towns in the region and , effectively , to the main settlements within this group ( Garbett-Edwards 1972 ) . |
| 8 | The radical tradition , from the Chartist Sunday Schools of the 1840s through to the WEA and extra-mural department situated its practice firmly within a labour movement paradigm that increasingly placed the organised working class — defined above all as the active members of the trade union movement — at the heart of its endeavours . |
| 9 | No doubt also the judges have been anxious further to limit the availability of judicial review given its tendency to ‘ overburden ’ the courts . |
| 10 | The four-year-old car looks in remarkably good condition given its mileage . |
| 11 | He criticized Bevin for lack of imagination — surely an inverted compliment given its implication of positive contributions in the past . |
| 12 | Small wonder that the monster regarded his creator as God Almighty ! |
| 13 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
| 14 | A cold , biting wind chilled our fingers and stiffened the muscles of our body and , just as we crossed into Somerset , the long-awaited snow began to fall . |
| 15 | She found that even three-year-olds judged a character to be more pleased when the result of his action matched his intention than when there was a mismatch between the intention and the result . |
| 16 | No , the problem was the car missed its targets . |
| 17 | He stood in the corridor outside while the priest prepared his wife for death . |
| 18 | and he goes why were you in my , why am I in my underwear seen my pants and he goes ah , here 's a message on my knee and he goes P S Sue Carpenter and they look at each other and they go , Sue Carpenter whoooo and then the mouse traps go off and it ends with them going |
| 19 | And the photograph matched it sort of said I 'm not the same you know what I mean ? what he said . |
| 20 | Without a word , the stranger buried his axe in the man 's head , killing him instantly . |
| 21 | In order to maintain the illusion that the Indian Union , though a republic in form as well as in reality , remained nevertheless part of the same political entity as the United Kingdom , the British in effect abolished their monarchy itself . |
| 22 | I 'd built a cat flap in the flat door so he could get into the rest of the house and one more in the back door so that he could get out into the square yard of concrete which our landlord Nassim called our patio . |
| 23 | The Upland Landscapes Study based its survey on 12 parishes , all in the LFAs in England and Wales . |
| 24 | Presumably , his testing years as the first black in major league baseball affected his perceptions ; he was abused verbally and physically , was sent threatening notes , was boycotted by many teams and at one stage , came to the brink of a nervous breakdown ( Henderson , 1970 , p.71 ) . |
| 25 | This connection hints again that Fitzgerald led Eliot to the East , and that his reading in the history of religion affected his view of nineteenth-century poetry . |
| 26 | Peterborough played extremely well , though nervous tension affected our game in th e first half . ’ |
| 27 | West Belfast 's Job Training Programme is managed by Worknet , an agency which also runs four Job Clubs , an enterprise training programme called Your Business Opportunity , and most recently the community employment agency . |
| 28 | Founded in 1899 by a Briton living in Milan , Alfred Edwards ( who with due respect for the game 's summer rival called his creation the Milan Cricket and Football Club ) , the rossoneri — ‘ red-and-blacks ’ , their shirt colours — won the Italian league championship in 1901 , and again in 1906 and 1907 . |
| 29 | Indeed , instinct rather than inductive reasoning marked her approach to life . |
| 30 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |