Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 2 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 3 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 4 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 5 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 6 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 7 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 8 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 9 | Ratagan relieved her of one of them whilst she looked on with an eyebrow arched . |
| 10 | Those days climbing at Swanage and the Lizard reminded me of some familiar truisms , so easily lost when one is chained to the desk : that the spice of adventure and uncertainty , faced in partnership with others who feel the same , is at the core of all good climbing . |
| 11 | No doubt some contemporaries of the journalists who uncovered Watergate accused them of partisan bias and lack of balance — but I doubt that any of these commentators would have drawn an analogy between this investigative reporting and the repeated and transparently mendacious press statements of the Nixon Administration . |
| 12 | John accused me of wimpish behaviour , so we did the tourist bit around the pits . |