Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 When she was Prime Minister , relations with the United States and in particular he personal contacts with President Reagan , were far more special than they are now .
2 Despite a barrage of criticism Mr Rees pressed ahead with plans for Theatr Clwyd in Mold and in 1976 it was opened by the Queen .
3 ‘ I flew down to Cape Town and at 9.30 we went — with my daughter , son-in-law and their two children — to Pollsmoor Prison to visit my husband .
4 Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour .
5 He was elected to honorary membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1960 he was made a Commander of the British Empire .
6 Administratively the unit was originally part of the direct responsibility of the Assistant Director , Scotland but in 1974 it was transferred to the Continental Shelf and Geophysical Division of IGS .
7 In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds .
8 By 1795 significant sections of the Bible had been translated into Bengali and by 1798 he had completed his translation of the whole Scripture .
9 Sonia finished second in the overall European Grand Prix series to American hurdler Sandra Farmer Patrick and for that she was handed a cheque for 50,000 dollars .
10 For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies .
11 His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office .
12 In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests .
13 Anne visited Sarah but at first she was too feverish and in too much pain to talk .
14 As we have seen , Aung San had a great admiration for Nehru and in 1940 he attended the annual Congress at Ramgarh , regarded by Communists as bourgeois .
15 According to ‘ The Sunday Times ’ and ‘ The Design Business Group ’ the design industry is the fastest growing industry in the United Kingdom and by 1992 it will be 40% larger than it is today .
16 On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been .
17 ‘ There is likely to be more , I say continue , but let's not keep here talking about it , ’ said Joseph and with that he brought down his axe on a dummy beside him .
18 Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s .
19 Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 .
20 In 1899 he climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and in 1900 he joined the Allied march on Peking during the Boxer rising .
21 They had to start promptly at four , however , since the twilight came early in Egypt and by six it was getting too dark to see .
22 Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse .
23 In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 .
24 By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine .
25 He attended dame school and Erasmus Smith 's School in Galway and at sixteen he was earning his living as a tutor .
26 Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers .
27 I signed the papers in Manchester and after that I never seen the social worker again .
28 The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment .
29 The day dragged for Anne but at last she was free to hurry to meet John .
30 In 1962 , he married American actress Susan and by 1966 he was on the up again playing a seedy abortionist in the hit movie Alfie .
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