Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 2 | This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail . |
| 3 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 4 | This brought them into hostile contact with some of their neighbours , especially with the counts of Armagnac . |
| 5 | They were also in the business of wiring installations for consumers ( in houses , factories , schools , offices , shops ) beyond the mains terminals , and this brought them into direct competition with the 7500 , usually small , independent electrical contractors . |
| 6 | This brought us to female suffrage and , indirectly , to dictatorships . |
| 7 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 8 | The regional team of officers began from the basepoint of the Mezey Report , but this left them with considerable policy problems to solve since the zone hospital concept was supported neither by the constituent health authorities of the region ( the AHAs and the DMTs ) , nor by the community health councils . |
| 9 | And this stood him in good stead when he moved to the Darlington area . |
| 10 | Stirling remained a favourite with several monarchs : James II was born there , James III preferred it to other residences , James IV added to it , and James V transformed the interior into a Renaissance palace after his marriage to Mary of Guise . |
| 11 | These stood her in good stead as a borough councillor and labour organizer , but proved to be much less effective in national politics . |
| 12 | With the exception of Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie , the other five still all made it with varying degrees of comfort into the final 36 holes . |
| 13 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 14 | They all took it for white wine and discovered their mistake . |
| 15 | That kept me on reduced activity for about three weeks . |
| 16 | Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 17 | It was the issue that first brought me into active politics as long ago as 1964 . |
| 18 | Finally , I should like to express my gratitude to my partner , John Stacey , a lawyer of considerable intellect who , while bearing no responsibility for the contents of this work , first introduced me to commercial conveyancing and has since played no little part in my continuing education in the subject . |
| 19 | When we prepared the Fifth Symphony , we recorded it as a trial , worked on it again , then recorded it properly — sixty hours before we first gave it in public ! |
| 20 | That left him with severe deafness . |
| 21 | Plaudits still flow his way after the match , but Sole accepted them with typical modesty . |
| 22 | But Ader Tajan is dogged by a debt of FFr30 million owed them by Japanese real estate investor Narita . |
| 23 | Anglo 's purchase of Coalite in 1989 left it with total debts of £467 million . |
| 24 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |