Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 2 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 3 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
| 4 | As the elevator ascended Newman made his flat statement . |
| 5 | Within a few months of arriving in Blackpool , Luff announced his five year plan to transform the Undertaking , changed the livery to ivory and green , and introduced a streamlined tramcar as the prototype of a new fleet ( see p. 65 ) . |
| 6 | Fielding and the Autocrat made their different entrances . |
| 7 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 8 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 9 | The People 's Will revealed their mounting impatience to seize state power and use it to reconstruct peasant society on rational lines from above . |
| 10 | George Duffield got his second fright of the day when odds-on User Friendly was in trouble two out in the Yorkshire Oaks . |
| 11 | Doyle checked his forty-five magnum , then slotted it back into the holster on his back belt . |
| 12 | Mr Tsurumaki made his initial fortune in steel trading during the Korean War boom . |
| 13 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 14 | Settled round a large pine table with their assorted drinks , Helen listened attentively as Sophie revealed her new plan . |
| 15 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 16 | Ian gritted his bigoted teeth . |
| 17 | As to how young William met his untimely death , accounts vary . |
| 18 | Cincinnati got their first win of the season but only by 23–21 against Cleveland . |
| 19 | When he had convinced himself of this , and made sure that there was no other evidence which could lead the authorities to him , Kirov made his discreet departure . |
| 20 | Fireman Mister Dean became our best friend , and Mum 's especially . |
| 21 | Ambassador : Following his time with Wilson and Callaghan , Sir Patrick got his first embassy , Luxembourg , in 1977 . |
| 22 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 23 | Philippe produced his new car for the last two races of 1974 , in Canada and at Watkins Glen , where it qualified third . |
| 24 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 25 | Jane Collier produced her second work , The Cry : a New Dramatic Fable , in 1754 , jointly with Sarah Fielding , who was apparently thought by Richardson and other readers to be sole or chief author . |
| 26 | BRIAN Little got his first taste of League football by watching Hartlepool in action at the Victoria Ground in the Seventies . |
| 27 | Mond made his first steps in the business that would one day help form ICI , by finding better ways to make ‘ soda ash , ’ sodium carbonate . |
| 28 | In 1954 Sir Winston Churchill appointed him financial secretary to the Treasury under his old Marlborough friend , R. A. Butler ( later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden , q.v . ) . |
| 29 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 30 | A century later , Peter Bayley Williams and William Bingley made their historic climb of Eastern Terrace . |