Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [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 | But the impact on the camp lacked nothing in effect on that account . |
| 4 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 5 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 6 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 7 | DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania . |
| 8 | DIPLOMATS were stranded in lifts when a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew the fuses at a conference in Tanzania . |
| 9 | His GP referred him to hospital for a whole series of treatments , but nothing worked . |
| 10 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 11 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action . |
| 15 | She swam swiftly to cool herself , but fear stopped her in mid-dive . |
| 16 | ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook . |
| 17 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 18 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 19 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
| 20 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 21 | The thought of his short , strong , hairy body and his evil , cruel , wholly selfish mind filled me with horror . |
| 22 | The sea 's turbulence increased ; the noise of the cannons ' fire was terrible , unknown , the men felt panic rise inside them , yet the fear lashed them into frenzy of battle — then another canoe tipped up , and another , but still not the one in which Dulé rode . |
| 23 | The bizarre absurdity of his action filled her with amazement and wonder , for it seemed to disprove so many meannesses and preconceptions . |
| 24 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 25 | However , despite protests from the priests , who identified Gervais Sindakira as one of their workers , a soldier bayoneted him to death . |
| 26 | On 18 December 1961 the Committee for Space Research declared itself in favour of the development of the Diamant rocket . |
| 27 | Disgust betrayed him into passion . |
| 28 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 29 | The man and the child on the other side watched him with interest . |
| 30 | The man in the dock watched him in silence as he sat down heavily in his chair . |