Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 2 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 3 | Whereas Robert Rauschenberg already had produced an erasure of a De Kooning drawing in the early 1950s , Kienholz assembled his Odious to Rauschenberg in 1960 . |
| 4 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 5 | Secondly , Ghatak always wanted to combine the global with the local . |
| 6 | In fact , ’ Corbett now tried to clear the doubts in his own mind , ‘ why did n't the Queen send out a search-party for her husband ? |
| 7 | The first of up to 200 EC and CSCE ceasefire monitors arrived in Zagreb on Sept. 5 , and the Dutch Foreign Minister 's special envoy Henri Wijnaendts immediately began visiting the war zones . |
| 8 | As one correspondent put it , British umpire , Jeremy Shales and Belgian official Walter Leeman frequently had to warn the 20,000 crowd to moderate their enthusiasm . |
| 9 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 10 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 11 | The small piazza into which Zen eventually emerged had an eerie , underwater look , due to a uniform coating of lurid green light from a neon sign mounted on a building otherwise no different from the others . |
| 12 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 13 | No one in Iceland ever wanted to cross the Circle he said , except for one man , the vicar of Grimsey . |
| 14 | Butch Reynolds yesterday vowed to defy an international ban and continue his quest to run in the US Olympic trials . |
| 15 | Aquino also attempted to ease the pressure on her beleaguered government by offering on Aug. 29 to negotiate ceasefire agreements with any or all of the three groups — right-wing rebel soldiers , Moslem secessionists and the communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) — engaged in military conflict against her . |
| 16 | Lindsay also admitted having a shotgun , revolver and ammunition on the same date ; UVF membership ; two conspiracies to murder ; three hijackings and receiving firearms training illegally . |
| 17 | After the 1974 general election , Liberal Democrats have been nervously recalling , Mr Heath urgently tried to contact the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe to negotiate a pact , only to be informed by Liberal Party headquarters that no one could find Mr Thorpe 's telephone number . |
| 18 | They were not , Leading Seaman , now Sub-Lieutenant Saunders also came to see the Minister , and stay at the small guest house in Lillie Road . |
| 19 | BRITAIN and Ireland today united to mourn the child victims of the Warrington IRA atrocity and voice outrage at a murderous week of Ulster violence . |
| 20 | Opposition spokesman Roger Stott today hit condemned a move by Labour 's ruling national executive to investigate further the extent of support in the province for a Labour Party organisation . |
| 21 | STORMONT Minister Jeremy Hanley today refused to unveil a secret report into the management of the Department of Education . |
| 22 | Ardiles twice tried to capture the 28-year-old Northern Ireland international but has finally refused to meet County 's £200,000 valuation for the former Chelsea forward . |
| 23 | Anthony sometimes dared to do the things that Nigel only thought of . |
| 24 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
| 25 | The BT–13 could be reworked as the Val with major modifications , while Canary cleverly envisioned mating the forward fuselage section of the AT–6 with the aft fuselage of a BT–13 and splicing in two fuselage plugs to create the elongated Kate fuselage . |
| 26 | Yet Jonathon and Victoria hardly seemed to feel the lack of a mother . |
| 27 | MENZIESHILL and John Christie yesterday combined to produce a devastating performance in the European club championship , when Amit Bucharest were beaten 25-0 in the B Division in Basle . |
| 28 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 29 | Benstede , impassive , had left early , while Bruce scarcely bothered to disguise the murder in his eyes whenever he caught the King 's glance . |
| 30 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |