Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 2 | New lines in the Northern Corries must be getting scarce because only three were climbed recently , although White Magic was repeated by Graeme Ettle and quoted as straightforward V. |
| 3 | Both King Robert II ( 1371 – 90 ) and his son Robert III ( 1390 – 1406 ) spent time at Rothesay and carried out minor building works on it . |
| 4 | So often he has played second fiddle to Wright and notched only nine goals last season to his partner 's 30 . |
| 5 | BETWEEN rounds , two a day at that period , Cotton and Toots would stroll to the car park where the chauffeur unpacked the Fortnum and Mason hamper from the back of the hired Rolls and set up folding chairs and table for an al fresco repast of caviar and champagne . |
| 6 | Upstairs Rachaela put on a tape of Brahms and laid out some leaves of lettuce and slices of tomato , a cold chicken leg from the deli . |
| 7 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 8 | Except for Mr Tunze , all seven African backbenchers who spoke were highly critical of the TBC and advocated more direct control over the way it handled its finances , the news it chose to broadcast , and even the type of entertainment it presented . |
| 9 | February and proved most satisfactory . |
| 10 | She and Elizabeth Machin attended the Coburg course last May and brought back good wishes from ‘ Usch ’ , who looks forward to meeting the British participants at this year 's Whitsun Course . |
| 11 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 12 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 13 | He rode straight to the races at Budmouth and stayed there all afternoon . |
| 14 | Now group selection is , is the idea which grew up after Darwin and remained very common until the nineteen sixties and seventies , that natural selection could act on entire groups or species . |
| 15 | I scoured the greenery of the Jar din Massey unsuccessfully for signs of yet another literary genius with local connections : the bizarre Isidore Ducasse , alias the Comte de Lautréamont and author of the surreal Chants de Maldoror , who was born , like Laforgue , in Montevideo , but went to school in Tarbes and died even younger than Laforgue , at twenty-four . |
| 16 | Later in 1019 , the Chronicle says that Cnut sailed for Denmark and stayed there all winter . |
| 17 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 18 | A Scottish Corporal waved at Marius and handed over two tumblers of neat Malibu which we swigged quickly . |
| 19 | The only street fell steeply down towards the secondary gateway to the Manor and had about fifteen cottages on the east side of the road . |
| 20 | Diana was then three months ’ pregnant with Prince William and felt absolutely wretched . |
| 21 | They played turn the trencher and Blind Man 's Buff and forfeits , during the course of which Robert was required to kiss Alexandra and became entirely incoherent with rapture . |
| 22 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 23 | The Family Reunion , about which he had spoken in his letter of 30 December had opened in March and lasted only five weeks . |
| 24 | He registered with the DSS and filled in all the forms . |
| 25 | We sat in the garden today Luce and we got like , me Lucy and Tom and got about three pounds off all the little removes that came in |
| 26 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
| 27 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |
| 28 | In Normandy , the army under the command of the Earl of Warwick sacked Carentan and carried off huge quantities of plunder , while Froissart observed that after the sack of Caen the English ‘ won an amazing quantity of wealth for themselves ’ , and ‘ sent boats and barges laden with their gains — clothes , jewellery , gold and silver plate and many other valuable things — down the river to Ouistreham where their main fleet lay ’ . |
| 29 | We went in the direction of Stoke Poges and recited as much of the ‘ Elegy ’ as we could remember . |
| 30 | While Dace said that recession continued in the UK and became more visible in continental Europe , exchange rate movements meant that revenues were maintained in all sectors of Riva 's business . |