Example sentences of "[noun prp] [Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lord of the Rings is a Wagnerian tale partly domesticated — its style reminiscent , as befits an Edwardian boy , of the Kipling who once wrote Rewards and Fairies and delighted children with Puck of Pook 's Hill . |
| 2 | The Cathedral , the Nuns ' House , the City Clock and Uncle Pumblechook 's residence had been duly venerated , and a luncheon had been provided at the Bull Hotel for the benefit of the Lionisers and an odd and uncomfortable collection of those senior residents of Rochester who still remembered Mr Dickens . |
| 3 | They include some dating back to Emperor Septimius Severus who once ruled York . |
| 4 | The three quarters , too , made telling contributions , in particular centres Cunningham and Danaher who repeatedly defied England with a series of bone crushing tackles . |
| 5 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 6 | I went to see the Minister who had come to help Rev Kenneth who now had duties in other parts of London . |
| 7 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 8 | In Cambridgeshire , a middle course was followed by Baker who actively supported Chapter III courses in existing WEA branches and extended Chapter II activity in those villages in which WEA courses had never been provided . |
| 9 | Former junior internationals include Chris Allen and Rory McBride of Methody and Inst 's Jonny Curran who also represented Ireland in the lightweight four at last year 's Home Internationals . |
| 10 | The task of recovering this piece from disaster fell to David Woodward who promptly rented time on a thicknessing sander owned in another workshop locally and sanded the original veneers off . |
| 11 | Among the painters of this time to note are Antonín Manés , whose fine Romantic landscapes are signed ‘ Bohemus ’ , and the landscapes and still-lifes of Josef Navrátil who also painted house interiors . |
| 12 | It was Lear 's example that provided the impetus for the Goulds ' first publication , and it was Lear who later transformed Gould 's static and unimaginative style into the confident and innovative work that characterised his second and all subsequent publications . |
| 13 | And it contrasts with double Grand Slam winners Will Carling , Jon Webb , Rory Underwood , Rob Andrew , Mick Skinner and Peter Winterbottom who all went south to further their careers . |
| 14 | It has recently recruited Dick Watt who formerly ran ECGD 's City Office and he will enhance TI 's underwriting expertise . |
| 15 | ( His blood-pressure must have risen dangerously if he ever met anyone of the name of Hambly who also drank sherry ) . |
| 16 | Yet ironically it was US President Johnson who finally ensured Erhard 's downfall . |
| 17 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 18 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 19 | The King of Saudi Arabia who personally gave £150,000 today sent his personal wishes to Laura and her family . |
| 20 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 21 | Does he also recall the attitude of some Opposition politicians and , indeed , many local councillors in Norwich who actively opposed NATO and its policies at that time ? |
| 22 | Caves figure strongly in the island 's mythology , usually as the palaces of Queen Calypso — the legendary queen of Gozo who once rescued Ulysses . |
| 23 | A great range of filtration systems have been developed from the pioneering efforts of the late Captain L.C. Betts who essentially miniaturized sewage disposal systems which resulted in the basic undergravel filtration system of the present time , which illustrates the principles involved . |
| 24 | It was GT 's Geoffrey Harrison who recently lambasted farmers who during the more buoyant 80 's had been ‘ obsessed with the idea that they should not pay tax . ’ |
| 25 | The Woodvilles , in short , may constitute a potential weakness in Edward 's scheme of things , but it was Gloucester who actually dictated events , first by seizing the prince and then by taking the throne , and the Woodvilles ' importance becomes a question of how far it was they who triggered Gloucester 's actions . |
| 26 | The Woodvilles , in short , may constitute a potential weakness in Edward 's scheme of things , but it was Gloucester who actually dictated events , first by seizing the prince and then by taking the throne , and the Woodvilles ' importance becomes a question of how far it was they who triggered Gloucester 's actions . |