Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that many more men resembled Dustin than ever resembled film stars like Cary Grant or Gary Cooper was irrelevant . |
| 2 | Mary Newport and new found sisters Millicent , Jeanie and Roberta . |
| 3 | Both had for a period apprenticed their ideas to those of Graham Sutherland and both paid homage to Picasso , Vaughan equating him with Auden and Bartók as an artist who had evolved ‘ a coherent vocabulary of form appropriate to our life ’ . |
| 4 | David Mairowitz 's Censorship column covered the controversies around obscenity cases like Last exit to Brooklyn but also struck attitudes which others saw , even in those days , more suspiciously . |
| 5 | There were many branches of the Northumbrian dynasty , however , and many noble families who claimed descent from Ida and thereby expressed aspirations to the kingship . |
| 6 | It was headed by Professor Godfrey Thomson and already produced tests which correlated very highly with secondary school success . |
| 7 | The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland . |
| 8 | Well played Mills and well played Phillips at the other end . |
| 9 | The government , faced with this fresh outbreak of insurgency , maintained its policy of talks with Brunswijk and also opened negotiations with the Tucayana , an eight-member Tucayana delegation meeting with Jaggernath Lachmon , chairman of the National Assembly , on Oct. 9 . |
| 10 | It certainly worked this week ( hic , belch ) when we popped over to France , the land of garlic , CHARLES AZNAVOUR and rakishly tilted berets , and discovered a Heavenly Records party in full swing . |
| 11 | The move is intended to allow Wharfedale to rationalise its activities and to concentrate on developing the Cambridge and newly announced Leak ranges . |
| 12 | Though he 's still injured , Mick Quinn 's horse trained by Mick Channon and prophetically called Pleasure Ahead — won the 1.30 at Lingfield at 5–1 . |
| 13 | Donald Maclean 's wife Melinda joined her husband in Moscow but soon found life bleak and dismal . |
| 14 | Upon marrying Lovebird Johnston , Juan moved to the outskirts of Kingstown , St Vincent and finally found work packing bananas for shipping around the world . |
| 15 | At the end of August , the first German warplanes bombed Paris and also distributed leaflets warning Parisians to surrender : the Germans were at the gates . |
| 16 | Erm that was Mark and Jeremy and unless somebody owns up they were pinging a dried pea at Lee and nearly hit Mr ! |
| 17 | I risked another Middleditch and luckily caught Bunny at home . |
| 18 | My detachment was not allowed to last , I was soon chatting to the ex-Lady Mayor of Portsmouth and later made friends with the Commanding Officer of one of the Army supply boats stationed on Benbecula with whom I was able to swap experiences in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 19 | Wynkyn de Worde printed Hilton 's Scale at the command of Lady Margaret Beaufort and carefully arranged selections from the Book of Margery Kempe known as A shorte treatyse of contemplacyon . |
| 20 | In his spare time , he was part of the Travelling Wilburys and still found time to produce countless records and tour with his Spiritual Cowboys . |
| 21 | In the early 1830s he was employed as factory surgeon to the mill of Hindes and Derham and later claimed credit for the half-time education system for child factory workers whose health appeared precarious . |
| 22 | Apart from this stricture , I think I overestimated Dorothy Wellesley and perhaps underrated Marianne Moore . |
| 23 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 24 | The other is that George shot Lennie because Lennie would have either gone to jail where Lennie could not have coped , or been shot by Curley and never reached heaven with his dreams fulfilled . |
| 25 | The milky-white substance which cloaked Bourn every day totally stopped the heavy bombers from taking off , and at that time the Allied armies were coping with the Battle of the Bulge in France and desperately needed air support . |
| 26 | A special train was arranged for Ludendorff , the hero of the siege of Liege and newly appointed Chief of Staff in the east . |
| 27 | Cantona came into it on Thursday and quickly agreed terms . |
| 28 | Impactive colour also radiates from the papier mache dishes by Sugs Shelton and similarly modelled pop sculpture of groups of ordinary domestic items by Jon Atkinson . |
| 29 | In come Allied Colloids , Rentokil ( both chemicals companies ) , Reuters , RMC ( a building-materials group ) , United Biscuits , S.G. Warburg , Wellcome and recently privatised Wessex Water . |
| 30 | Throughout 1912 he test flew aeroplanes for Ducrocq and also instructed novice pilots at the Ducrocq-Lawford Flying School . |