Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 2 | Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’ |
| 3 | As he always has done , King produced the big names . |
| 4 | And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist . |
| 5 | The first he knew of his death was when Yeremi plunged the monomolecular knifeblade up his severing nostril through bone into his cerebrum . |
| 6 | Haydn recommended the Viennese pianos of Wenzel Schantz ( c.1750–90 ) in a letter of 1790 . |
| 7 | Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune . |
| 8 | Pamela asked the young girl on the reception desk , speaking very slowly since she clearly spoke very little English . |
| 9 | To begin with , people thought that electric charges could be arbitrarily big or small , but Faraday made the crucial step of showing that charged atoms , or ions , are always associated with a fixed amount of charge or some multiple thereof , suggesting atoms of electric charge . |
| 10 | With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself . |
| 11 | An agreement signed during a two-day visit by senior purchasing staff from Behr appointed the Welsh Development Agency 's source team to select Welsh companies capable of supplying air conditioning system components such as wiring harnesses , precision castings and turned parts . |
| 12 | Frances experienced the red alert as agony . |
| 13 | Ben Crawley got the only try as Saracens beat relegation favourites Rugby 14-6 . |
| 14 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 15 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 16 | After Simmons stabbed at a lifter from Bosch and was caught off the shoulder of the bat in the gully in the fourth over , Snell made the vital breaks , removing Haynes and , first ball after tea , Richardson . |
| 17 | Has Iain Banks passed the Scottish writer 's mid-life crisis ? |
| 18 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 19 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 20 | Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland . |
| 21 | The Assumption in Moscow became the new prototype and was copied again and again all over Russia for many years as the orthodox pattern for such great churches . |
| 22 | During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler . |
| 23 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 24 | The stoicism with which the Masai endured the harsh circumstances of their lives made a deep impression on the British , and the opportunity to share that hard life and thus to display to some extent their own possession of this admirable quality was part of Masailand 's attraction for many Englishmen . |
| 25 | Newman read the typed sheet quickly . |
| 26 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
| 27 | In 1974 Hawking made the astonishing discovery that black holes , previously regarded simply as absorbers of radiation , do in fact themselves radiate . |
| 28 | OLD Kingstonians and Brooklands became the final qualifiers for next year 's Pizza Express National League , winning their play-off matches yesterday to earn places in the Second Division . |
| 29 | And as soon as his own net duties were over on Tuesday and yesterday , Ian made the short trip to Derby to spectate . |
| 30 | It was in the rose gardens that Annie McCafferty met the young ex-boxer one fine , crisp morning when the buds were appearing and trees were coming into leaf . |