Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked the questions Wallace wanted me to ask . |
| 2 | As she scanned the titles Polly 's brows contracted in a puzzled frown . |
| 3 | At the press conference at which the ITC announced the licences Mr. Simon Albery , who ran the campaign for quality television , said to me , ’ Quality has won ’ . |
| 4 | To be more accurate , while Norah Docker sought the cameramen Sir Bernard hung about like a good-natured but rather dim St Bernard dog providing the money for her extravagance . |
| 5 | On 11 August , on being informed of this , the chief constable , Mr. Geoffrey Dear , suspended the officers Woodley and Clifford and ordered an inquiry to be supervised by the P.C.A. On 9 February 1990 it was announced by the deputy chief constable that the investigation had produced no evidence that the officers Woodley and Clifford had removed anything from the court file . |
| 6 | I remember how he described the messages Mme Guérigny maintained she received from Montaine . |
| 7 | When Minton brought back to Allen Street a Party of sailors , it was Paul who fried the chips Minton knew they liked to eat . |
| 8 | The sensational book included the revelations that Charles and Camilla used the nicknames Fred and Gladys and regularly communicated . |
| 9 | In the first place , although he habitually used the words England and English rather than Great Britain and British , he was doubtfully English , both in blood and temperament . |
| 10 | Yesterday he endorsed his doubles standing when he and his partner Jim Grabb , already through to the semi-finals of the Nabisco Masters doubles championship at the Royal Albert Hall , finished their round-robin group matches unbeaten when they defeated the Australians Mark Kratzmann and Darren Cahill 7-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 . |
| 11 | She prodded at her pâté de foie aux truffes de Perigord , rearranged the maigrets de canard on her plate in the hope that she might be able to hide the tender slices of duck under her untouched vegetables , and , when the sweet trolley arrived , with its groaning layers of gâteaux and desserts , she mumbled an excuse to her neighbour and slipped away . |
| 12 | The restaurant manager told the police Linley had left at 3 p.m . |
| 13 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 14 | You can also understand why everybody identified the photos Hamilton brought down as being Hess . |
| 15 | Then came the Reverends Brown and Cope , and it was the latter who in 1877 witnessed the radical and excessive restoration of the ancient whitewashed church to produce what from a distance looks almost totally Victorian with its new little lead-covered spire and shingled bell turret . |
| 16 | Then came the Ranks Hovis McDougall story . |
| 17 | And then she recalled the words Emilia Frere had spoken : You have not known a man … you have not suffered at their nakedness . |
| 18 | As she climbed the stairs Sally could hear the low voices and the giggles coming from the bedroom she shared with her sister and knew what it meant . |
| 19 | These idealizations are referred to by Holdaway as the ‘ mental map ’ of the police ( 1983 : 63–4 ) , and he addressed the typifications Hilton 's police had of their area ( sites of ‘ danger ’ and ‘ trouble ’ , ‘ mump holes ’ , and so on ) , and the people they encountered ( ‘ challengers ’ , ‘ disarmers ’ , ‘ prisoners ’ ) . |
| 20 | She studied art formally at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London c .1910–14 and 1918–19 , but as a teenager learned much from her grandfather , George Howard , a self-taught painter who befriended the artists Edward Burne-Jones , William Morris [ qq.v. ] , and Giovanni Costa . |
| 21 | And she loved the stills Jay had dug out ; her lovely lips tasted the Melina Mercounand she raised her glass to Jay . |
| 22 | and on specific issues that interested the Unionists Lloyd George promised an open mind on tariffs and no coercion of Ulster . |
| 23 | He was one of a select group , which included the justiciars Robert de Beaumont , first Earl of Leicester , and Richard de Lucy , and the treasurer Nigel , bishop of Ely [ qq.v. ] , who provided continuity between the old and the new regimes . |
| 24 | ALEX Taylor , a recording artist whose brothers and sisters included the musicians James , Livingston and Kate Taylor , has died after a heart attack . |
| 25 | Aethelred was assassinated on 18 April 796 , perhaps at Corbridge , by a group of conspirators which included the ealdormen Ealdred and Wada , and the kingdom plunged into confusion . |
| 26 | Its leading figures included the theologians Wilhelm Herrmann of Marburg ( 1846–1922 ) , Theodor Haering of Tübingen ( 1848–1928 ) , Julius Kaftan of Berlin ( 1848–1926 ) and the church historian Adolf von Harnack , also of Berlin ( 1851–1930 ) . |
| 27 | For a period of 4 weeks Mr and Mrs Jones recorded the times Olwyn was in bed by 8pm . |
| 28 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 29 | The therapist encouraged Tony to look back at what had and had not changed , and stressed the efforts Tony had made to bring some structure and pleasure to his weekly routine , and to pursue his search for a job . |
| 30 | William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own . |