Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 2 | Both King Robert II ( 1371 – 90 ) and his son Robert III ( 1390 – 1406 ) spent time at Rothesay and carried out minor building works on it . |
| 3 | BETWEEN rounds , two a day at that period , Cotton and Toots would stroll to the car park where the chauffeur unpacked the Fortnum and Mason hamper from the back of the hired Rolls and set up folding chairs and table for an al fresco repast of caviar and champagne . |
| 4 | Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli . |
| 5 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 6 | She and Elizabeth Machin attended the Coburg course last May and brought back good wishes from ‘ Usch ’ , who looks forward to meeting the British participants at this year 's Whitsun Course . |
| 7 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 8 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 9 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 10 | He registered with the DSS and filled in all the forms . |
| 11 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
| 12 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |
| 13 | In Normandy , the army under the command of the Earl of Warwick sacked Carentan and carried off huge quantities of plunder , while Froissart observed that after the sack of Caen the English ‘ won an amazing quantity of wealth for themselves ’ , and ‘ sent boats and barges laden with their gains — clothes , jewellery , gold and silver plate and many other valuable things — down the river to Ouistreham where their main fleet lay ’ . |
| 14 | In 1863 he moved to Singapore and set up another , much larger studio . |
| 15 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 16 | He retreated to Highgrove and took out some of his frustration on the soil and the polo field . |
| 17 | Derek Warwick , returning to Interlagos after a long absence , found it tough going in his Footwork Mugen Honda and ended up 19th on the provisional grid . |
| 18 | ‘ Get some Blu-Tack and put up those posters I bought . |
| 19 | After QiA training , they identified PONCs and set up 20 Salt Improvement teams to investigate key areas and remove non-conformances . |
| 20 | We carried troops dropped them off in Italy and picked up German prisoners of war and Yugoslav refugees to take to Port Said . |
| 21 | Then , she became Poppy and sought out new , tasty morsels . |