Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pepys met him in 1665 . |
| 2 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 3 | Elizabeth Woodville drew her to one side . |
| 4 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 5 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 6 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 7 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 8 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 9 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 10 | According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder . |
| 11 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 12 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 13 | France and Switzerland were the only two which mattered in 1880 ; Portugal joined them in 1910 . |
| 14 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 15 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 16 | Valadier restored them in 1821 in travertine which is distinguishable from the original marble workmanship ( 157 ) . |
| 17 | Worcester were wobbling at 33 for three but Hick guided them to 158 for five . |
| 18 | Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday . |
| 19 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 20 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 21 | Captain Meredith treated him to one of his freezing looks . |
| 22 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 23 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 24 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 25 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 26 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 27 | It defines material which ‘ any reasonable person ’ ( a judge , for example ) would find ‘ shocking , disgusting and revolting ’ , as Lord Denning the then Master of the Rolls defined it in 1976 . |
| 28 | Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes . |
| 29 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 30 | Zack told him in three angry sentences . |