Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’
4 Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ?
5 Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry .
6 His GP referred him to hospital for a whole series of treatments , but nothing worked .
7 Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London .
8 The See Hear programme publicised it on television .
9 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 .
10 PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks .
11 ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action .
12 She swam swiftly to cool herself , but fear stopped her in mid-dive .
13 ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook .
14 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 .
15 The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants .
16 The President told me in person last night .
17 The thought of his short , strong , hairy body and his evil , cruel , wholly selfish mind filled me with horror .
18 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 .
19 The bizarre absurdity of his action filled her with amazement and wonder , for it seemed to disprove so many meannesses and preconceptions .
20 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 .
21 However , despite protests from the priests , who identified Gervais Sindakira as one of their workers , a soldier bayoneted him to death .
22 Disgust betrayed him into passion .
23 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 .
24 The man and the child on the other side watched him with interest .
25 The man in the dock watched him in silence as he sat down heavily in his chair .
26 The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words .
27 Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath .
28 The trip from Jura that morning had been exciting enough , with a following sea cork-screwing the boat wildly as we ran before it , with the occasional shuddering ‘ gybe ’ when a shift of wind took us by surprise .
29 We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces .
30 An ambulance took her to hospital in Abertillery , Gwent , but she was dead on arrival .
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