Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton I had passed School Certificate , but without the credit in Latin which was indispensable for getting to Oxford . |
| 2 | Well I wo n't have enough time by Friday I 've got homework to do every day |
| 3 | and probab er probably Thursday morning as , as well , so I 'll probably have Thursday , Friday maybe Saturday , well , oh I should have , because by working on the games Thursday morning , that 's another three hours , that 's , brings me up to , twenty eight , yes twenty eight er er thirty one and er , I 'll , I 've got class top contacts time in the , in the afternoon , so that does n't count , Friday I 've got class , a two hour class , but er , tt , I 'll be working outside , in fact that class will be cancelled that day , so it 's er , so four hours that 's thirty six er , Saturday forty two , Tuesday erm tt , oh that week I 'll have a six for Wednesday er nine Thursday er twelve for Tuesday another twelve , plus the evening twelve , plus two , plus another six , that 's eight and a half , eighteen , another eighteen hours |
| 4 | Now that it is clear that pre-Christmas Sunday trading has simply been a stalking horse for all-year Sunday trading , will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating stores such as House of Fraser , C and A , and Marks and Spencer which have upheld Sunday trading laws and refused to break them ? |
| 5 | In contemporary opinion it was an impregnable fortress ; indeed Richard himself had taken refuge there five years earlier when driven out of Saintes by his father . |
| 6 | The Sikorsky which had flown Hauser from Helsinki to the isolated rendezvous in the Finnish woods stood inside the clearing , its rotors motionless . |
| 7 | They missed out in a play-off drama last season despite the arrival of new owner Lionel Pickering who has spent £9million on buying and rebuilding the club . |
| 8 | She thought that it was Matey who had encouraged Dr Neil to become a doctor and take up an East End practice . |
| 9 | The Forest Race Course and Queens they 've all got plenty of space while in the centre of Mansfield you 've got room to pork park even at the Walkden Street car park . |
| 10 | She was shouting after the Oye-Eboe who 'd brought gunpowder , beads and dried fish to trade for wood-ash salt and the perfumed woods and earth of his tribe . |
| 11 | Thousands of refugees in Afghanistan who 've fled conflict and civil war are now preparing for a further challenge … the bitter winter ahead . |
| 12 | On the 30 September 1834 the lease was surrendered and a fresh indenture made from 1st October between Lady le Fleming , and Taylor , one Richard Gaunt of Leek , and now John Barratt who had left Grassington to live in Coniston . |
| 13 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 14 | And it was Cousin Saul who had blackmailed Ebenezer , extorting money from him in return for his silence about Kleiber 's death . |
| 15 | In the Painting School Minton worked with Rodrigo Moynihan who had replaced Gilbert Spencer as Professor of Painting . |
| 16 | The Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , Niue 's only formal political association ( which was strongly opposed to the leadership of Sir Robert Rex who had dominated politics since Niue became self-governing ) , made gains with the victory of sympathizers including Tauveve Jacobsen , who retained the seat she won in a 1989 by-election , and Sani Lakitani , the founder of the NPAP . |
| 17 | On the line from Calverton we 've got Grenville . |
| 18 | In Seattle he had studied philosophy , citing Nietzche and Camus as two of his more important influences , and he has a remarkable grasp of both British and American politics . |
| 19 | He claimed repair works were urgent and said that although the public had responded magnificently , councils and businesses had not followed suit , with the exception of ICI which had given £500 . |
| 20 | He loved it and although he was obedient to his great theatrical challenge and returned to Stratford , he was happy to go back after Stratford to star in Legend Of Lovers , a play by Jean Anouilh which had begun life as Eurydice . |
| 21 | The board also received an oral report from the chief legal officer about a meeting with representatives of Norwich Union which had taken place on the morning of 29 October 1990 . |
| 22 | The deputation decided to seek a meeting with the Board after it reversed a decision made at meetings in January and February which had given Bangor two towns . |
| 23 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
| 24 | Successive French governments maintained the alliance with Russia which had taken shape by 1894 , in spite of the hostility to it of the powerful socialist and radical parties and the great body of French opinion they represented . |
| 25 | In June Maria Luis Perdigao Abrantes was appointed head of the foreign investment office , to replace Aguinaldo Jaime who had become Finance Minister [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 26 | They will be greeted by local communities in East Anglia who have made arrangements to provide them with a very special welcome . |
| 27 | AEA itself has appointed consultants and merchant bankers to help it develop and refine its work on strategic options as its contributions to the DTI review . |
| 28 | It was Bailey who 'd started the fire , but Paterson who 'd helped wash Bailey 's jeans which had been stained with blood from the break in at the parachute hanger . |
| 29 | Governor General of Fiji from 1973 to 1983 , Ratu Cakobau was the great-grandson of Ratu Seru Cakobau who had ceded Fiji to Britain in 1874 . |
| 30 | Frank you 'd bought caps on |