Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 2 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 3 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 4 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 5 | ‘ Me too , ’ Kelly interrupted with a sweet smile . |
| 6 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 7 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 8 | Newman asked in a low voice . |
| 9 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 10 | Hull levelled with an excellent try by Rob Nolan from a pass by Aussie Scott Gale . |
| 11 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 12 | On Aug. 2 Baker met with a Palestinian delegation in East Jerusalem led by Faisal al-Husseini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial PLO representative in Jerusalem . |
| 13 | Baker met with a 10-member Palestinian delegation on March 12 , the first such meeting since the US suspended its dialogue with the PLO in June 1990 [ see pp. 37547-48 ] . |
| 14 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 15 | William agreed with an uncharacteristic lack of enthusiasm . |
| 16 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 17 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 18 | Melanie asked in a congested , small voice . |
| 19 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 20 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 21 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 22 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 23 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 24 | Sophie gazed at the huge , ugly monster with his great broad head and tiny protuding eyes . |
| 25 | On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt . |
| 26 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 27 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 28 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 29 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 30 | His grandparents used to be Gypsies and Jon realised from an early age that he would like to follow in their footsteps . |