Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " 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 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 5 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 6 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 7 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 8 | His GP referred him to hospital for a whole series of treatments , but nothing worked . |
| 9 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 10 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action . |
| 14 | She swam swiftly to cool herself , but fear stopped her in mid-dive . |
| 15 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 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 | He was still at school when Simon Rattle directed him to Hurst . |
| 19 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 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 | An actress cornered her with snippets of information about herself which she hoped Rain would publish . |
| 24 | The bizarre absurdity of his action filled her with amazement and wonder , for it seemed to disprove so many meannesses and preconceptions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , despite protests from the priests , who identified Gervais Sindakira as one of their workers , a soldier bayoneted him to death . |
| 27 | Documents found in his car linked him to La Cutufa . |
| 28 | Having tried to arrange repatriation and found it hopeless , he was resigned to whatever future faced him in Germany . |
| 29 | The Fourstars ' lawyer showed it to Medicare which finally relented . |
| 30 | Disgust betrayed him into passion . |