Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 2 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 3 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 4 | Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . |
| 5 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 6 | ‘ And when does Lisabeth want to move into the annexe ? |
| 7 | Temple became known as a local Gretna Green and an historian of the time commented , ‘ Many a bad marriage bargain is there slubbered up ( sic ) and grass widows with their fatlings put to lie in and nurse here ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Or there 's the chance Mills got murdered by a sadistic lunatic , ’ Urquhart added . |
| 9 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 10 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 11 | I began by learning a bit of the trade and spent a summer up at Glenfiddich helping to put in a new storehouse . |
| 12 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 13 | A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge . |
| 14 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 15 | The art historians and restorers dealing with the St Servatius restoration are pleased with the expertise DSM has brought to the project . |
| 16 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 17 | A child is duly conceived , but before ever it is born , there is a breakdown of relationships between Sarah and Hagar , and Hagar has to flee into the desert . |
| 18 | One of the greatest difficulties Denis has faced over the years — and it has increased as the world has turned to harassing the smoker — has been how to keep awake through the after-dinner speeches without the benefit of a cigarette . |
| 19 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 20 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 21 | Taylor promised to abide by the Yamoussoukro settlement , although on Nov. 6 he stressed that he would defend the country against outside threats . |
| 22 | Unguarded remarks by Truman on 30 November on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea precipitated in Westminster what Roy Jenkins has described as a " mood of near panic " far worse than any he experienced throughout his entire political career . |
| 23 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 24 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 25 | Clarence has escaped from the Tower , and is crossing the Channel with his brother Gloucester ( later to become Richard III ) . |
| 26 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 27 | And the young man they can thank for keeping their championship hopes alive is Dunbarton 's Myles Greenfield , who was the only PGL skip to finish with an up . |
| 28 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties dogging other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 29 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 30 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |