Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 2 | Over his coffee , Pascoe toyed with permutations of possibilities in which Felstead or Evans had written the letter ( all the letters ? ) , in which Mary Connon had a lover ( someone at the Club ? |
| 3 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 4 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 5 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 6 | Then Mr Neal read from Romans 12 : ‘ Avenge not yourselves , but rather give place unto wrath … vengeance is mine : I will repay saith the Lord ’ . |
| 7 | Universe editor Anne Noels checked with bosses about the ban in the new catechism — an updated Ten Commandments planned by the Pope . |
| 8 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 9 | Harvey asked between bites on the doughnut . |
| 10 | Their beautiful home on Belmont Avenue was ‘ open house ’ to a score or so of young friends on Saturday evenings , when Lawren and Bess entertained with concerts of symphonic recordings , serving coffee and biscuits . |
| 11 | Vice-chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls agreed to demands from a majority of the informal BCCI creditors ' committee for more time to consider the deal , under which the bank 's majority shareholders in Abu Dhabi will inject nearly £1 billion . |
| 12 | nineteenth century , the Nez Perce fought with clubs , lances and their most famous weapon , a bow of mountain sheep horn . |
| 13 | IM Svidler drew with grandmasters Ribli and Hjartarson and IM Gelfer drew with grandmasters Bonsch and Hjartarson . |
| 14 | Second placed Portadown are back to full strength for their home game with Cliftonville ; injury doubts Joey Cunningham and Peter Murray trained without problems . |
| 15 | This was in early 1989 ; by the end of the year , after the pilot had been made and the EBU had given the enterprise the go-ahead , Ms Cann entered into negotiations with BBC Enterprises , responsible for distributing the series and for the merchandising rights . |
| 16 | Janzen calculated that in a fig ‘ seed ’ shadow in Costa Rica created by bats depositing ‘ splats ’ at the density of some 10perm2 over 2500m2 , there were 367500 fig seeds dispersed . |
| 17 | Pyatt crashed in combinations at will in the third and a punishing left to the jaw broke the Guyanan 's resistance , and referee Richard Davies rightly intervened . |
| 18 | Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office , where terrified workers doused the flames and administered first aid . |
| 19 | Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office where terrified workers doused the flames . |
| 20 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 21 | Now Professor Lock referred to allocations and I think that 's probably and the front of his mind er having regard to his own comments , but I I would put it more widely as just erm exceptions which could be either individual allocations or indeed erm policies of of a local plan . |
| 22 | It was largely under the influence of Barnes that the SCS entered into discussions with the Edmonton Society on amalgamation soon after he was re-elected as president of the SCS in January 1919 . |
| 23 | At any rate , in we went , and soon I was happily splashing around the creeks while Kodiak plunged after sticks thrown by his mistress . |
| 24 | In December 1990 Chandra Shekhar met for talks with Simranjit Singh Mann , leader of one of the three main Akali Dal factions [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 25 | Lowndes Queensway failed with debts of £200M , despite two refinancings and substantial asset sales . |
| 26 | The bland account , superficially no different from hundreds of others carried every day , continued : ‘ in the course of his visit , Comrade Nicolae Ceauşescu met with representatives of the miners of Lupeni . ’ |
| 27 | Burford 's crime , they said , was to refuse ( at President Reagan 's request ) to turn over scores of EPA documents relating to deals EPA made with businesses that dumped hazardous wastes . |
| 28 | The concessions Edward made on matters such as purveyance and unparliamentary taxation went a long way towards meeting the grievances of the commons , and the king was able to mobilize the resources he required for war . |
| 29 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 30 | Corbett shouted for jacks of ale , demanding they be served the landlord 's best . |