Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretty soon the law would know more about Mahoney than his own mother . |
| 2 | After this , Pakeezah 's brothers went to Pakistan while her younger sister emigrated to England : she now lived in Wembley where her husband worked in a biscuit factory making shortbread . |
| 3 | they see Murray Walker as their Holy Pope |
| 4 | On the king 's behalf in 1276 he urged Llewellyn , Lord of Snowdonia , to acknowledge Edward as his feudal lord , and in February 1277 he excommunicated Llewellyn for refusing an offer of mediation . |
| 5 | the development of transport and communications opened up distant US/European markets — reliance on exports by most Asian NICs as their domestic markets were too small ; |
| 6 | He had little to shout about on Saturday as his own standard slipped to match that of those around him . |
| 7 | Younger supporters will remember the late , lamented Ken as our dedicated chairman for over forty years , but as a player he was perhaps the most talented the club has ever produced . |
| 8 | — IT WAS surprises galore for Shotley Bridge Victory Social Club 's retiring treasurer John Edgar when his fellow officials laid on a special party night to mark his 31 years on the management committee . |
| 9 | The day passes in a haze of Russian taxi drivers who know even less about LA than my dead Gorbals grandma . |
| 10 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 11 | And if this candidate they 're sending should be more interested in Home Rule for Ireland than our Ten Hours ' Bill then what of it ? |
| 12 | If the Prime Minister gets a chance to read it , will he accept that it more accurately reflects the views of the people of Scotland than his Front Bench team does ? |
| 13 | LASMO North Sea will discover in May if its latest bid to secure further exploration rights in UK waters has been successful . |
| 14 | Alan Beatt , Weidenfeld 's representative in Scotland and northern England until his early retirement on health grounds , died on 13th December after a long illness . |
| 15 | In the long term , all West Germany 's Western neighbours and partners would feel a great deal more relaxed about a coming-together of the two Germanies if her immediate neighbours to the East were capitalist democracies , themselves gradually integrating into a larger Western European community . |
| 16 | I actually bought the Levin because my first choice was unavailable . |
| 17 | He had fled to London in 1828 after the Catholic emancipation bill had been passed , forced to leave his beloved Ireland because his Catholic fervour had led him to kill a Protestant in an argument during the celebrations . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that any of this weekend 's candidates will have been motivated by recent events in the Church of England since their initial enquiry and preparation will have begun long before the Church of England Synod vote of November 1992 . |
| 19 | ‘ The sidh have not been seen in Ireland since my own father 's day , but they are still here , Fergus . |
| 20 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 21 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 22 | In the Federalist rising of 1873 the canton of Castellón regarded the canton of Valencia as its greatest rival , though both were participating in a common democratic revolution in peril from a ‘ reactionary ’ attack . |
| 23 | When she heard why she was missing , Di immediately agreed to meet Tessa when her official visit was over . |
| 24 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 25 | Early in 1066 they were reluctant to accept Harold Godwinsson as their new king , and he and Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester had to visit York to conciliate them , whereupon the Northumbrians overcame their reluctance to be associated with southern softness — an attitude not uncommon in the north even today . |
| 26 | She had written about a brilliant girl who in spite of two years of blindness would one day represent Spain as her illustrious brother had done . |
| 27 | Ultimately , this poem may demonstrate not so much the frailty of Leapor 's beliefs , as the importance of Bridget Freemantle as her implied reader . |
| 28 | Haymo , although selected by the monks of Rochester as their next choice had to wait until August 1319 , before he was consecrated Bishop . |
| 29 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 30 | His office wants him back on Monday so his final week here is postponed indefinitely . ’ |