Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes from this meeting were kept by Colonel Hossbach and later fell into Allied hands . |
| 2 | As most of the decisions are now taken in Brussels and merely rubber-stamped by Westminster , just what is the point in voting ? |
| 3 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 4 | The mission , said to reflect a growing realization that the Afghan resistance had failed to achieve the US administration 's objective of overthrowing the Kabul government , was in anticipation of a meeting later in the year between US Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and also came amid accelerating efforts by the UN to secure Soviet support for its own peace initiative . |
| 5 | He returned to Washington and then went to Switzerland . |
| 6 | His widow and children returned to England and later emigrated to Australia where one of the daughters , Maria Louisa , made a good marriage . |
| 7 | Over the long centuries a series of massive offensives rolled them back through the Shadowlands and eventually culminated in the storming of Anlec . |
| 8 | The composer , Edward Elgar , for example , needed the solitary paths of the countryside around the Malvern Hills and often spoke of hearing songs and sounds not heard by others . |
| 9 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 11 | In the meantime , the King gathered an army around himself at Shrewsbury and then headed for Oxford . |
| 12 | At a certain point , evidently prearranged , for he did n't consult Nenna and hardly glanced at the banks , Richard put about , switched off the engine and hauled it on board . |
| 13 | He was an inflexible , even fanatical supporter of the ultramontane line taken by Wiseman and Manning and often machinated against the other English bishops , exacerbating disputes and misrepresenting them to the pope . |
| 14 | Felix thought of Czechoslovakia and then careered into a fantasy of Ho Chi Minh gossiping about the minor members of the English Royal Family . |
| 15 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 16 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 17 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 18 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 19 | In the first half they had dominated the line-out through Bayfield and David Baldwin , they had handled the New Zealand scrum capably and they had put together two backline tries with training ground precision , whereas the struggling New Zealanders could find only two penalty goals from Greg Cooper and never looked like mounting a try-scoring attack . |
| 20 | Shortly before midnight he was hit by a car in Victoria Road and later died in hospital . |
| 21 | During that time , as in the case of many other trappings of modern America , it has crossed the Atlantic and subsequently emerged in Britain . |
| 22 | SHARE prices in London shrugged off Monday 's sharp fall on Wall Street but then succumbed to fresh falls in New York late in the day . |
| 23 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 24 | The stabbings provoked widespread alarm in Israel and often led to retaliatory attacks on innocent Arabs . |
| 25 | This opposition was not confined to Donegal but also appeared in other areas — Cork , Carlow and Wicklow . |
| 26 | His younger brother , who lives in the same house in Umtata , met Mr Mandela in August and subsequently travelled to ANC headquarters in Lusaka . |
| 27 | On a dark and icy cold morning in January 1946 I flew in an RAF plane from Berlin to Kiel and then drove in a jeep to a British Army Church House a few miles outside the city . |
| 28 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 29 | Jordan , Egypt and Turkey had earned substantial revenues from workers ' remittances and trade with Iraq and Kuwait ; some middle-income countries such as India relied heavily on oil imports from Iraq and also benefited from sizeable remittance flows ; and for some low-income countries , including Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh and the Philippines , the loss of remittances and the rising cost of oil imports were expected to slow growth rates to an average of around 1.5 per cent by 1991 and add some $3,000 million to annual Third-World debt interest payments . |
| 30 | Scott then joined Grissell and Peto and also worked on Hungerford Market . |