Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 2 | My parents sold it in 1985 , when my father was very ill ( he died in 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 4 | Prince charles presented them with three accolades — including his special patron 's award — at the National Training Awards organised by the Department of Employment . |
| 5 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 6 | ‘ Your parents bought it in nineteen-sixty from their landlord . |
| 7 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 8 | Four victories and two second places took her to 140 points before the Christmas break , almost 100 ahead of the next best , Switzerland 's Chantal Bournissen . |
| 9 | A speedy journey in the boats took us to one of the 365 islands in Lough Erne . |
| 10 | EUROPE 'S showjumping horses ended their longest ever journey to a Volvo World Cup Final — from Frankfurt , Germany , to southern California — in spectacular fashion , when United States ' fighter planes escorted them into two Miramar military air bases . |
| 11 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 12 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 13 | By 1961 it was fading : lack of resources kept it to four or six pages when other broadsheets were three or four times as big . |
| 14 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 15 | The Albanian Communist Party , formed by the defeated minority in the former ruling communist PLA when party reformists renamed it in 1991 , was thus outlawed . |
| 16 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 17 | The richest sources exploited today are the mines of Colombia , where the Spanish conquerors encountered them in 1537 . |
| 18 | Ludens followed him into one of the other rooms , a bedroom , green , where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness . |
| 19 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 20 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 21 | The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen . |
| 22 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 23 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 24 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 25 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 26 | At Lincoln Crown Court today Judge Richard Hutchinson who 'd adjourned the case for reports sentenced him to two consecutive eighteen month prison terms . |
| 27 | It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford . |
| 28 | Refrigerators were especially expensive and only one in ten consumers had them by 1957 , while washing machines ( few of which were automatic ) had reached only one home in five . |