Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 2 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 3 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 4 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 5 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 6 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 7 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 8 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 9 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 10 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 11 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 12 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 13 | His GP referred him to hospital for a whole series of treatments , but nothing worked . |
| 14 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 15 | When Kendall left , Colin Harvey moved him to right-back after a season . |
| 16 | When Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658 , his son , Richard succeeded him as Protector . |
| 17 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 18 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 19 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 20 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 21 | PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks . |
| 22 | Mrs Spencer asked us to tea ; they pressed us , so we accepted . |
| 23 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 24 | Benedict 's eyes met hers in triumph as she turned a fierce look of venom upon him . |
| 25 | The original is in Catalan , but Tristram translated it into English . |
| 26 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 27 | When Jardine died in 1843 , Matheson succeeded him as MP for Ashburton , 1843–7 . |
| 28 | ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action . |
| 29 | ‘ The itinerary , ’ Mary Ann pronounced it with care . |
| 30 | She swam swiftly to cool herself , but fear stopped her in mid-dive . |