Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Before he left for his six weeks stay in Swindon that spring he had first called her ‘ sweet ’ , she recalled four months later , ‘ in the little passage , near the willows , near the farm ’ on Wandsworth Common . |
2 | In mid-June that year he lectured in Birmingham several nights running . |
3 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
4 | Until March this year he was a music entrepreneur who did whacky stunts and ran an airline of the side . |
5 | Dear G. E. Rald , We should like to take this opportunity to inform you that on 12th March this year you were seen entering empty handed into the private premises of Ms P. C. Edwards of Convent St. , Folkestone and leaving shortly afterwards with your hands full . |
6 | In March this year it increased its presence in the UK with the acquisition of London Life , the British mutual insurer , which attracted a measure of opposition from the British group 's policyholders . |
7 | In view of the Duchess of York 's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision . |
8 | The Nicholson racing team from Temple Guting are really galloping away … on Saturday Waterloo Boy was a winner again … at Hereford this afternoon they were first past the post with Barrica … that 's seventy winners this season an all time personal best … |
9 | In the European Championships in Sheffield this afternoon she put in her best ever swim to qualify for the final of the 200 metres breastroke … wish her well … |
10 | In a recent commission to make art for a new Manhattan high school they decided to embed hundreds of transparent glass bricks filled with artifacts from around the world in the walls of the public corridors . |
11 | Dan this song it 's all about Sam and how he 's coming . |
12 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
13 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
14 | No not yet , it was started on Tuesday this week they have the books for ten days or something before they started on them . |
15 | She 'll be round on Friday afternoon or Saturday some time I said we 'd be here from four o'clock on Friday so I 'll take it down to John 's today then it 's away to work I 've got the rubbish in the bins right ? |
16 | For our event at Crystal Palace this year we plan to change the format to try and encourage you all to come along in droves ! |
17 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
18 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
19 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
20 | But apart from that , when he played for Arsenal last year he seemed as fit as ever , and the impetus of joining a new club would spark him on further . |
21 | That 's , d' ya remember we got Andy last time we did . |
22 | On Tuesday last week he was detained and questioned by North Yorkshire fraud squad officers investigating alleged offences under the Banking Act . |
23 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
24 | She thought of what he 'd said about New England that day he 'd brought her to Rome , and how arrogantly she 'd reacted . |
25 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
26 | It is a small town , with a textile industry , and on the first Sunday of May each year it is the scene of the meeting of the Landsgemeinde — the formal assembly of all vote holding citizens of the canton and its law-giving governing body . |
27 | In July that year he was raised to the peerage . |
28 | When Topaz went to see Lord Lovat that week she was unusually silent . |
29 | In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country . |
30 | However with the Daily Telegraph in front of me reporting only three trains each way over the Central Wales line from May this year I find the current railway scene enough to depress anyone ! |