Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
2 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
3 | When the Abwehr sent me to Ireland in forty-one I met a friend of his in Dublin . |
4 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
5 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
6 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
7 | After his death , the Maori honoured him with a lying-in-state at Pipitea Marae , near Wellington Cathedral , and a karanga ( lament ) by two kuia ( older women ) who remained with the casket throughout the ceremonies . |
8 | The paper should prove to be ‘ a powerful stimulus ’ to discussions , the Institute said , while the ACCA welcomed it as ‘ an important contribution to the expectations gap debate ’ . |
9 | It defines material which ‘ any reasonable person ’ ( a judge , for example ) would find ‘ shocking , disgusting and revolting ’ , as Lord Denning the then Master of the Rolls defined it in 1976 . |
10 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
11 | From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion . |
12 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
13 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
14 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
15 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
16 | The Feldwebel took us to a German Red Cross canteen . |
17 | The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table . |
18 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
19 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
20 | Later the Youngs accompanied them to Harold and Isobel Shoosmith 's house where they were to spend the night . |
21 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
22 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
23 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
24 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
25 | The Glovers approached it with apprehension , unused to such places . |
26 | Suddenly the suburban street outside the school was blasted by an explosion louder than anything heard there since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1944 . |
27 | When the challengers , who have a bigger budget and more style than the host body , wanted to open their own village , the ACOC barred them from using the words ‘ America 's Cup ’ . |
28 | On request , the East Midlands Region Office of the NCC supplied us with permits to visit . |
29 | What did surprise me however was that some of my colleagues in the Commons took it on themselves to force me and others to change their minds . |
30 | The Mercers fixed it at £100 in 1503 ; either it was not enforced or the assessments are thoroughly unsatisfactory . |