Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1780 he was elected MP for Southwark , defeating Henry Thrale and thereby provoking the contempt of Dr Samuel Johnson [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | The next day I walked through a hazy , warm day up Gordale Scar to Seaty Hill and then followed the old monastic road of Mastiles Lane to Kilnsey in Wharfedale . |
| 3 | Some chinampas are still in operation and experimental models are being built in other parts of Mexico and elsewhere to assess the productivity of this method of agriculture in swamplands today . |
| 4 | Between November 1201 and November 1203 de Neville and his agents paid over 8,000 marks into the king 's privy purse at Caen , Rouen and elsewhere to meet the expenses of John 's disastrous campaign in Normandy . |
| 5 | After service in the Royal Army Medical Corps , Dr Burkitt worked in Uganda and later joined the Medical Research Council and became involved in cancer research . |
| 6 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 7 | She would stab de Raimes and then turn the blade on herself . |
| 8 | AFTER TWO DECADES , NCR LOSES SUMITOMO BANK TO NEC AND GRACEFULLY EXITS THE MAINFRAME BUSINESS |
| 9 | Honduran military officials are worried that the road would allow their country to become a base for raiding parties into Nicaragua and further destabilise the troubled region . |
| 10 | But , as so often , no one was prepared to halt the machine once set in motion and on Friday 26 January 1744 Admiral Jacques de Roquefeuil sailed out of Brest with a fleet of 22 ships , with instructions to cover the embarkation of the army at Dunkirk and then to lure the English fleet away towards the Isle of Wight . |
| 11 | These demonstrate the basis upon which Stalin seized Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania and so undermine the legitimacy of continued Soviet rule . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't be in Sardinia and not try a prickly pear . ’ |
| 13 | Now scarcer than Bewick 's Swan and not recorded every year , although no change in the number occurring is apparent . |
| 14 | Wayne Morris is very active as Nestor and surely has a career in regular farce . |
| 15 | In his last season with us , 1923–24 , he became a phenomenal penalty saver : between December and March he saved spot-kicks at Derby , The Wednesday , Clapton Orient and Bury and fully deserved the acclaim he received . |
| 16 | The rebellion spread across a vast stretch of eastern European Russia and severely shook the government and nobility alike . |
| 17 | The pitiable Mr Pygling , who jerked through the little town with a stick — it turned out he had Parkinson 's disease — doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public ( having restored it sufficiently ) on Sundays . |
| 18 | In the sample year ( 1985 ) , Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was sentenced at the end of February and immediately became a legendary sex beast to whom several subsequent reports explicitly referred . |
| 19 | They now moved back , in sympathy with the Japanese surrender , they moved back and the nationalists took Shanghai and really controlled the whole of , of south China again so that the , the old landlord system had been re-established . |
| 20 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 21 | The Cecil Cafe next door was run by Mr. Gray and then came The Goat public house , which after closure in 1927 became a hotch-potch of offices and workshops , used by small traders . |
| 22 | All you 've got to do is chat to him about Tuscany and then twist the conversation around so you can slide in a few of my questions . ’ |
| 23 | The Scots go into their concluding match today knowing that they can afford to lose to England and still take the title — provided that neither Ireland nor Wales manage to secure a big win in their clash this morning . |
| 24 | The dominant Labour Party included large sections of industrial South Wales which was openly hostile , fearing that devolution would separate Wales from the economic and social structure of England and perhaps become a paradise for linguistic nationalists . |
| 25 | After the SPR has been submitted , it is still possible to add modules to the original SPR and also to extend the range of versions of a module specified by the SPR . |
| 26 | After the SPR has been submitted , it is still possible to add modules to the original SPR and also to extend the range of versions of a module specified by the SPR . |
| 27 | Rangers are four points clear of Aberdeen and also have a game in hand over the Dons . |
| 28 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 29 | He fled via Linlithgow to Dunbar and ignominiously took a rowing-boat back to the English border at Berwick . |
| 30 | It is obvious , by the very nature of things , that the Scottish National party could win all 72 seats in Scotland and not have a majority in the House . |