Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a strong crusading tradition in the Geneville family , extending back to the mid-twelfth century : Geoffrey and his brother William duly accompanied Edward on crusade in 1270 , but returned before him . |
| 2 | Provincial branches of Narkomzem only contacted Moscow when in need of salaries and funds — otherwise they led independent lives . |
| 3 | Reason — I think Harvey only replaced Sprake just before 1972 cup final . |
| 4 | Newman especially had faith in Whitaker as the ideal weaver of Doctor Who stories . |
| 5 | Sheila especially had dreams of university . |
| 6 | Germany alone received $9 billion in 1970 and $4 billion in the first five months of 1971 . |
| 7 | We sat companionably enough , each ruminating on the nature of existence so early in the morning and contemplating the day 's activity , although Bernard obviously had opinions on that as well , judging by his expression . |
| 8 | Hoomey thought she did n't speak English very well ; she spoke Punjabi to the family , but Mr Singh always spoke English and Jazz only spoke gook to his mother , not to anyone else . |
| 9 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |
| 10 | When the Palestinian revolt broke out in 1936 , Abdallah secretly urged Britain to exile Palestinian leaders , and offered to work with the Jewish Agency to sabotage intervention by other Arab states . |
| 11 | IBM Brasil Leasing Arrendamento Mercantil SA duly raised $120m with the issue of a $120m two tranche Eurobond due December 1995 . |
| 12 | After 1537 Musgrave mostly abandoned Cumberland and moved to his house in London . |
| 13 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 14 | Olivier flew straight out while Asher discreetly told Finch that it would be a good idea if he moved out of Vivien 's room . |
| 15 | Richard rather liked Willis 's pictures , and had got him to do a pen and wash drawing of Lord Jim . |
| 16 | And Becky duly chose Barbara as an ideal make-over subject , and took a camera crew over to Widnes to do an interview and to re-vamp Barbara 's image . |
| 17 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment should become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp on Friday duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
| 18 | US Open champion Tom Kite took a seven at the fourth , but Faldo swiftly obliterated Craig Parry 's three-shot overnight lead . |
| 19 | Jean alone had evidence of Dr Crane 's last meeting with Eliza . |
| 20 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Laughton only played Hook . ’ |
| 22 | Edwina Currie rightly criticised Mr Major for stomping around in a Barbour jacket . |
| 23 | NEITHER Pétain nor any of the French commanders at Verdun entirely shared Joffre 's optimism . |
| 24 | Ates suggests that Molla Yegan thus met Molla Gurani not in Egypt but perhaps in Aleppo while returning from the pilgrimage and that the story about their meeting in Cairo was concocted in order to make Molla Yegan 's more desirable . |
| 25 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 26 | Prudhoe just beat Fashanu to a loose Steve O'Shaughnessy backpass and Loram turned well inside the box to shoot straight at Prudhoe . |
| 27 | For a time , things hung in the balance , until Richard finally lost patience and took the city of Messina . |
| 28 | THE United States yesterday cancelled talks set for Monday with the European Community over a public procurement dispute and said sanctions were now hard to avoid . |
| 29 | PETER Chapple-Hyam yesterday challenged Jim Bolger to let St Jovite take on Dr Devious in the Group One Juddmonte International at York next Tuesday . |
| 30 | Arsenal still bought Lukic 6 months later . |