Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of this summer 's Lions squad , Mike Griffiths and Mike Hall , decided to leave Bridgend for Cardiff last week , while the Wales hooker Ian Watkins joined them from Ebbw Vale in August to be followed by Newport 's Wales B wing Damien Griffiths and the Abertillery lock Stuart Nunnerley . |
| 2 | Lynda Clifford did a sponsored aerobic session , Sue Tons and her family took part in the Great North Walk , Cycle Ride and Run , and Gary Bainbridge joined them for the Run . |
| 3 | This is what Charlie looked like when Monica and Roger King took him into their home in Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 5 | The new Sunderland striker steadied himself before blasting an unstoppable left-foot drive past Karavaev . |
| 6 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 7 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 8 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 9 | When Kendall left , Colin Harvey moved him to right-back after a season . |
| 10 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | Very few Account Executives ( AEs ) at DPR Futures knew anything beyond the most basic facts about futures . |
| 12 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 14 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 15 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 16 | ‘ None of the Chelsea lads said anything to me . |
| 17 | RSPCA inspectors found him after combing the area for an hour following a tip off . |
| 18 | The March gale hurled itself against Mr Whittaker 's windows . |
| 19 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 20 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 21 | ‘ Miss Honey taught it to us in three minutes so we 'll never forget it . |
| 22 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
| 23 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 24 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 25 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 26 | The Hardy Hall and George and Marie cases introduced you to the idea that case studies ought to include a certain amount of financial and statistical data . |
| 27 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 28 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 29 | David Quarmby helped her in choosing these topics and assisted her with some of her coursework . |
| 30 | TOP music man Simon Draper is quitting Virgin Music just seven months after he and co-founder Richard Branson sold it to Thorn EMI for £560m . |