Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 3 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 4 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 5 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 6 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 7 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 8 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 9 | On that one day he notched up five kills although Fighter Command downrated them to four ‘ probables ’ . |
| 10 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 11 | Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe . |
| 12 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 13 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 14 | But her mind presented her with two stiff figures lying side by side , not even holding hands , perhaps not even saying a polite goodnight . |
| 15 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 16 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 17 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 18 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 19 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 20 | Labour held it until 1983 when SDP President and former Labour MP Ian Wrigglesworth dramatically won with a majority of 102 . |
| 21 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 22 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 23 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 24 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 25 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 26 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 27 | This magnificent , and still valuable , work earned him in 1920 the Lyell medal of the Geological Society of London ( of which he was a senior fellow and later vice-president ) and an honorary doctorate ( 1919 ) from the University of Wales . |
| 28 | The princess bought hers in 1988 before going on a visit to Australia . |
| 29 | Frankly , this proposal reminded me of one of the quotations with which Taylor prefaces his chapter on ‘ Value-added Processes in Information Analysis ’ : |
| 30 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |