Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 2 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 3 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 4 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 5 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 6 | ALEXANDER Workwear tumbled from a £5.3m profit to a £500,000 pre-tax loss last year , after charging £1½m ( £1.3m ) of exceptional rationalisation costs . |
| 7 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 8 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 9 | Kolchinsky asked with a frown . |
| 10 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 11 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 12 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 13 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 14 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 15 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 16 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 17 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 18 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 19 | He singled out as the most significant object , a bronze mace 13½ ″ long in the form of the club of Hercules surmounted by a panel of figures in solid relief . |
| 20 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |
| 21 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 22 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 23 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 24 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 25 | God knows what they would make of Georgina when Victoria passed on an estimate of her age . |
| 26 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 27 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 28 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 29 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 30 | Tip-offs by former Stasi officers who had fled to West Germany led to a spate of arrests during 1990 . |