Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 2 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 3 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 4 | Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . |
| 5 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 6 | Temple became known as a local Gretna Green and an historian of the time commented , ‘ Many a bad marriage bargain is there slubbered up ( sic ) and grass widows with their fatlings put to lie in and nurse here ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Or there 's the chance Mills got murdered by a sadistic lunatic , ’ Urquhart added . |
| 8 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 9 | Taylor promised to abide by the Yamoussoukro settlement , although on Nov. 6 he stressed that he would defend the country against outside threats . |
| 10 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 11 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 12 | Whereas Moscow tried to pose as the champion of German unity therefore , the West posed as the defender of German liberty , arguing that reunification must only come after free nation-wide elections , and that Germany should be able to choose its own Allies . |
| 13 | Determinedly Isabel tried to shut off the thoughts of Dameta , of home and family . |
| 14 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 15 | Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree . |
| 16 | During his Oxford years , Isaac Abendana became known as a resident authority on all matters Jewish and the chief purveyor of Hebrew books , a situation he consolidated by inventing the Oxford diary , which in his original form included not only information relevant to university men but also a yearly essay on some aspect of Jewish religion and culture . |
| 17 | In February Hungary agreed to move towards a multi-party system , an idea that was once as dreamy as the Danube . |
| 18 | Mind you , Ann , I suppose that 's why Pat got thinking about a Tory er vote . |
| 19 | Bernice agreed to lie on the ground and moan . |
| 20 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 21 | Given the basic similarity of human sexuality at birth , and the bisexual nature of human beings , Freud sought to account for the way in which men and women are produced in a particular society — namely , middle-class Europe and America in the early twentieth century . |
| 22 | Like many radicals Cary became disillusioned with the Rump Parliament and welcomed its fall . |
| 23 | It was at this point that Napoleon became entangled in the feuds of the court factions ; his exploitation of these feuds after the tumult of Aranjuez gave a confused start to a national revolution . |
| 24 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 25 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 26 | On behalf of the Inter-Regional Group of some 400 radical deputies , Mr Yevtushenko moved to include on the agenda discussion of Article 6 of the constitution , which enshrines the ‘ leading and guiding role ’ of the party . |
| 27 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 28 | In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet . |
| 29 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 30 | Kyle pretended to gaze around the carriage , his eyes lingering on her for a moment . |