Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was a shock when Middlesbrough announced the former Croydon , Carshalton and Sutton United player as their manager . |
| 2 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 3 | Repton made the same point in his Sketches and Hints of 1794 : ‘ To improve the scenery of country and to display its native beauties with advantage is an art which originated in England . ’ |
| 4 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 5 | The Model E NC46V was used by Bayles to gain fourth place in the 1931 National Air Tour at over 140mph and at the National Air Races in that year Robert Hall ( chief designer to Granville Brothers Aircraft Inc ) flew the Sportster D NC11043 to gain first place in a 400cu in pylon race , and Bayles and Mae Haizlip used the same aircraft to gain places in several other races in 1931 . |
| 6 | Rumsey in West Ham Ward used the same programme , but also issued a leaflet giving details of how he won the DCM , concluding ‘ Do your bit by voting for the man who has done his bit for you ’ . |
| 7 | Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded . |
| 8 | It was an accident of course but old Colonel Saunchie got a few pellets in him . |
| 9 | Edward made a few concessions . |
| 10 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 11 | Lasmo reported a half year profit before tax of £72m ( v £132m ) . |
| 12 | Bernice staggered a few steps forward . |
| 13 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 14 | The office of chief operating officer that OSF created a few months ago has been abolished . |
| 15 | Bombs in the baggage from a CP Air flight from Vancouver exploded the same day in Tokyo . |
| 16 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 17 | BLACK MARK : Liverpool 's Mark Wright scored an own goal |
| 18 | Somes joined the latter company when it was refounded in 1838 , sold to it its first ship , Tory ( sent to New Zealand in 1839 with a shipload of settlers without government permission ) , and became governor of the company in 1840 . |
| 19 | I did not see the production until the following Christmas , when it contained an amusing touch which I imagine John must have added that year , after Leonide Massine had revived The Three-cornered Hat at Covent Garden : Hansel and Gretel danced a few steps with a bunch of grapes , a good-humoured quotation from the dance of the miller and his wife in Massine 's ballet . |
| 20 | Bella returned a few moments later , carrying her drink in one hand and a lighted cigarette in the other . |
| 21 | Melissa drove a pale and silent Rose back to the auberge , and Dora followed a few minutes later . |
| 22 | The Cheshires enjoyed no such luxury and had to control the anger and revulsion that engulfed them as they experienced the horror for real . |
| 23 | Mr Straw displayed no such reluctance . |
| 24 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 25 | Mikhail Gorbachev achieved the same goal during the 1985 Geneva Summit meeting with Reagan . |
| 26 | Sir Walter Scott followed the same track , saying ‘ I have a friend who is extraordinarily favoured with the visits of Queen Mab ’ . |
| 27 | Ramsey felt the same ecstasy , of history speaking out of sanctified stones , in Durham itself . |
| 28 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
| 29 | Marie took a few steps towards him . |
| 30 | No less devotion was brought to four songs by Joseph Marx , and although the rather overheated style of Nocturne elicited a few smiles ( Parsons performing prodigies in representing the burgeoning June night ) there was a touching ecstasy in Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt which was delivered absolutely from the heart . |