Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Brady agreed to lend Gray Dugald McCarrison , and the Scot became an instant hit , scoring in a one sided 4–0 win , with partner Ellison scoring twice .
2 In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book .
3 Luce made a sweeping gesture with one arm and tried not to wince at the pain .
4 Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’
5 HOUSEWIFE Ruth Watkins got a sinking feeling yesterday — when a 470ft deep hole appeared outside her front door .
6 Minton became a regular visitor to the Moynihans ' house in Old Church Street .
7 Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première .
8 As he always has done , King produced the big names .
9 Liverpool City Council leader Harry Rimmer made a strong pitch for the region at a special hearing before a European Parliament committee examining the problems of large urban areas .
10 An echo of this criticism survives in Goya 's Caprichos and in the poetry of Meléndez Valdés , vague but radical in its humanitarianism : one of the Salamantine group , the Abbé Marchena became a French propagandist , appealing to Spain to destroy the Inquisition and imitate the ‘ sublime ’ revolution of France .
11 Banyon made an anguished sound and , after burrowing in his coat pocket , threw a handful of coins onto the table .
12 And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist .
13 Trying not to show that she was completely at a loss , Sophie made a careful examination , then , taking out her stethoscope , she gestured to the herdsman to hold the calf steady while she listened to her patient 's lungs .
14 Diaka announced a 34-member Cabinet on Oct. 30 , in which he claimed that 40 per cent of ministerial posts were taken by members of the Sacred Union .
15 A pair of Messerschmitts made a strafing attack on St. Paul 's Bay where a Sunderland flyingboat and the Loire 130 were slightly damaged at their moorings .
16 ICI endured a similar fate .
17 The first he knew of his death was when Yeremi plunged the monomolecular knifeblade up his severing nostril through bone into his cerebrum .
18 To the executions for heresy , Sussex made a gory contribution , twenty-seven men and women being burnt between 1555 and 1558 .
19 In 1921 Alfred Watkins made an apparent discovery that was startlingly simple and yet revolutionary .
20 Haydn recommended the Viennese pianos of Wenzel Schantz ( c.1750–90 ) in a letter of 1790 .
21 The government of Prime Minister Paul Keating produced an expansionary budget on Aug. 18 designed to stimulate economic growth and boost employment .
22 Originally planned in conjunction with John Hopkins University to be both a museum and a biblical study centre , the BLM became a single-handed operation when the American institution withdrew its $7 million commitment to the project .
23 ANDRE Van Troost made an quick breakthrough after Somerset set Surrey an imposing victory target at The Oval .
24 ANDRE Van Troost made an quick breakthrough after Somerset set Surrey an imposing victory target at The Oval .
25 Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune .
26 Pamela asked the young girl on the reception desk , speaking very slowly since she clearly spoke very little English .
27 After blessing Joseph and Mary , Simeon made a strange prophecy :
28 To begin with , people thought that electric charges could be arbitrarily big or small , but Faraday made the crucial step of showing that charged atoms , or ions , are always associated with a fixed amount of charge or some multiple thereof , suggesting atoms of electric charge .
29 With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself .
30 MARK TAYLOR made a spectacular debut as Australian captain yesterday , snapping up four slip catches as they beat the West Indies by 14 runs in a rain-affected World Series match at Sydney .
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