Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hull levelled with an excellent try by Rob Nolan from a pass by Aussie Scott Gale . |
| 2 | William agreed with an uncharacteristic lack of enthusiasm . |
| 3 | His grandparents used to be Gypsies and Jon realised from an early age that he would like to follow in their footsteps . |
| 4 | Hans Lewy is another scholar with whom one can disagree only at one 's peril , and Hans Lewy maintained in an admirable paper that at least what Josephus quotes is authentic Hecataeus . |
| 5 | May 1945 , the final capitulation of Germany occurred with an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces . |
| 6 | And this part of your mind that makes you feel guilty Freud regarded as an internalized representation of other people to some extent , and indeed he thought that it , the superego was constituted by internalization and identification with the parents at the culmination of the Oedipus complex . |
| 7 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 8 | Travis drew in an irritable breath . |
| 9 | Hawkbit winced in an exaggerated manner and backed away . |
| 10 | Coming into the kitchen , Pat dropped into an easy chair by the fire . |
| 11 | In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion . |
| 12 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 13 | Barratt came from an old mining family and indeed , had been captain at Wheal Friendship , on Dartmoor , where his father , for years , had been manager . |
| 14 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 15 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 16 | Southport heartened by an early goal from Andy Ferns defended well and talented schoolboys Mathew Holmes and Stuart Humphries scored their other goals . |
| 17 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 18 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 19 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 20 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 21 | In 1975 , Branson went on an exploratory trip to Jamaica with his lawyer and friend Charles Levison . |
| 22 | 65th minute : Ian Wright emerged from an innocuous challenge with Howells and clouted the Spurs man . |
| 23 | Morthen said in an angry voice . |
| 24 | Lucy relaxed in an easy chair . |
| 25 | ‘ I did try , C.W. , ’ Philpott said with an apologetic shrug . |
| 26 | Molly waited for an embarrassing reminiscence and got it . |
| 27 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 28 | Nutty came to an agonised halt . |
| 29 | Our Vauxhall suffered from an annoying fifth gear whine on a trailing throttle but the engine 's hard-edged yet effortless snarl as it wound out to the 6600rpm cut-out is a far more satisfying sound than the Chrysler four . |
| 30 | The Nez Perce believed in an infinite number of spirits , all of them a part of one omnipotent deity and embodying a sacred Wyakin power , which was present in the land , elements and animals of their country . |