Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Brown hit 59 for Rainhill , while Peter Hodgson scored 45 for Ainsdale and took 4–53 . |
| 2 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 3 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 4 | I understand you acted on behalf of local residents in the old docklands area of Cardiff and secured protective clauses for them in the Act of Parliament which now permits the Cardiff Bay Barrage to be built . |
| 5 | But just in case the bed failed to live up to his claims , Dr Graham wisely installed a more familiar sexual stimulus in the form of Emily Lyon , who took the form of Hygeia and danced naked for the clientele . |
| 6 | This was all the more important , by virtue of the fact that he was , in some sense , a usurper — he had toppled a descendant of Hercules and needed some rival god 's support for his own assertions of legitimacy . |
| 7 | Mow it has become a showpiece of Wallheath and won many gardening contests . |
| 8 | For that reason , however inadequate some people may regard it , I was a firmly convinced supporter of Biafra and made various futile efforts during the war to persuade Harold Wilson to a like view . |
| 9 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 10 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 11 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 12 | The high court decision , announced at the end of December in that year , found on behalf of SPUC and declared such counselling by the Dublin Well Woman Centre and the Open Line counselling service to be illegal and ordered them to cease their public information service on the issue by 12 January 1987 . |
| 13 | Sitting pretty : Marion Barry , who lost his job as Mayor of Washington and served six months ' jail for cocaine possession , is back in city government after winning a council seat . |
| 14 | Thus Louis controlled the frontier with the Saracens in the Pyrenees , Pepin curtailed the Duke of Benevento and defended north-eastern Italy against incursions by the Avars , and Charles the Younger fought against the Bretons of Armorica , who rebelled in 786 and 799 against Frankish rule . |
| 15 | He restored and augmented the collegiate church of Crediton and founded another college at Glasney , near Penryn ; and in 1268 and again in 1275 he undertook the revision and amendment of the statutes of his cathedral church . |
| 16 | The preliminary findings , particularly the HIV section , were published in Nature magazine at the beginning of December and became headline-grabbing material in the nationals . |
| 17 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 18 | The so-called ‘ Green Berets ’ had , they insisted , seized control of Zvornik and looted Serbian homes and shops . |
| 19 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 20 | Belgrade radio said Croatian forces fired mortars on to the Serbian town of Sid and attacked Yugoslav Army positions in central and eastern Croatia . |
| 21 | Montfort was promised the earldom of Richmond and sought active English intervention in Brittany on his behalf , while Blois obtained the support of Philip VI . |
| 22 | Peter emigrated to Australia some 20 years ago from Leicester and at this time picked up an old copy of Bradshaws and became interested in the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 23 | Then he caught sight of Theda and stopped dead , staring . |
| 24 | In 1981 they emigrated to the Province of Ontario and became Canadian citizens . |
| 25 | On Friday 10 May students occupied the Latin quarter of Paris and built 60 barricades , which were violently attacked by the CRS . |
| 26 | He has worked nearly all his life for the Woodbridge firm of Notcutts and spent two years as a student at the world-famous Wisley garden centre , where he was guided by former Notcutts managing director Frank Knight . |
| 27 | In this case , therefore , the problem was horribly compounded by the fact that the queen was as yet childless ; and the heir who would succeed was James duke of Châtelherault , head of the unpopular house of Hamilton and discredited former regent . |
| 28 | Then she thought of Loulou and felt confused . |
| 29 | The Jewish people regarded what we now have as the Old Testament to be the World of God and acknowledged three categories or divisions : ( 1 ) The writings of Moses known as the ’ Pentateuch ’ ( Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , Deuteronomy ) ; ( 2 ) The Psalms ; ( 3 ) The Prophets . |
| 30 | Yet these houses , together with the small neat church with its yellow facing-brick and Gothic windows , the cottage across the road and the leafy entrance to Bachelor 's Walk formed one of the most painted and photographed corners of Portadown and graced many of a local postcard . |