Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 2 | Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car . |
| 3 | Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season . |
| 4 | William met him at university . ’ |
| 5 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 6 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 7 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 8 | Asked us ower fur drinks and when we got there — I mean Ah 'd had a bath , splashed on some of the Givenchy for Gentlemen that Isabel got me for ma Christmas and got into ma designer tracksuit just to be casual like … |
| 9 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 10 | Bratby had obtained permission to paint in the roof area of the Victoria and Albert Museum and there Minton visited him for tutorials . |
| 11 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 12 | Foley regarded him through clouds of aromatic smoke . |
| 13 | When Kendall left , Colin Harvey moved him to right-back after a season . |
| 14 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 15 | When Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658 , his son , Richard succeeded him as Protector . |
| 16 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 17 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 18 | Mrs Spencer asked us to tea ; they pressed us , so we accepted . |
| 19 | TOP music man Simon Draper is quitting Virgin Music just seven months after he and co-founder Richard Branson sold it to Thorn EMI for £560m . |
| 20 | The original is in Catalan , but Tristram translated it into English . |
| 21 | When Jardine died in 1843 , Matheson succeeded him as MP for Ashburton , 1843–7 . |
| 22 | Together they form the best picture of their love as Edward described it to Harry before his life at Lincoln began : ‘ For some reason or another we are happier now than ever before . |
| 23 | I had had no intention of touching it while Charlie Trumper was still away at war , until some five months later Kitty Trumper visited me in Romford . |
| 24 | ‘ Curious ’ , after all , meant ‘ investigative ’ when the Earl of Hyndford used it of Thomas Goldney III , and that is what universities are meant to be about . |
| 25 | ‘ The itinerary , ’ Mary Ann pronounced it with care . |
| 26 | My mission , should I decide to accept it , was to find Jack Scamp for Malpass before Nevil found me for Jack Scamp . |
| 27 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 28 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 29 | THE THOUGHT OF ASCENDING BEN NEVIS ON A SATURDAY FILLED ME WITH dread . |
| 30 | Grimma told him about events in the quarry — the fight with the humans , and the stealing of Jekub the earth-mover to escape . |