Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 2 | Having seen and heard him at Buxton , I find it hard to believe claims that he did not solo the South Face of Lhotse : claims , in any case , which Cesen has countered with an explanation . |
| 3 | When he had finished reading he carefully folded it and placed it on top of the blotter . |
| 4 | Er I 've done the slips and given them to Margaret to be . |
| 5 | After his death Mona had found the keys on the floor in the secretary 's room and given them to Maureen . |
| 6 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 7 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 8 | Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential . |
| 9 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons . |
| 10 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 11 | This time they managed to empty the room without any mishaps and prepared it for Endill 's work . |
| 12 | She pulled out a chair and positioned it between Karelius and Moreau , who struggled awkwardly to their feet to assist her . |
| 13 | I then attached a ring to this line and connected it to Dawn 's leash . |
| 14 | Thus it bought the van from the trader and transferred it on hire purchase to the customer . |
| 15 | We are all impressed by the Gurkhas , and anyone who has visited Nepal and seen them in operation is even more impressed . |
| 16 | This was the station where the fire had been , she had read about it and seen it on television . |
| 17 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 18 | I had chosen and wrapped them with care . |
| 19 | Such parts as these Ruth had drawn , and peopled them with dragons . |
| 20 | Oh , how she loved him , her strong and handsome father , not the ogre she had thought and called him over Terry — and to hear him admit that he was wrong ! |
| 21 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |
| 22 | He had practised his strange illusionisms on them , and sworn them to secrecy . |
| 23 | As you will know Councillor Wiper and Councillor Gornall have now replaced the seat and fixed it in position on Snowhill . |
| 24 | and packaged it in paper — candy-striped . |
| 25 | She had sucked comfort with the distant vibration of Fenna 's breathing rumbling down to his tail tip , and he had spun stories for her and woven them into dreams . |
| 26 | They had captured the Earl and taken him to Stirling Castle ; also Murray of Tullibardine , and him they had promptly hanged , for his betrayal at Dupplin . |
| 27 | South Clwyd Coroner John Hughes said he had been impressed by the courage of the other crew members of the Warrior and medics who had pulled L Cpl Edwards from the vehicle , tried to resuscitate him and taken him to hospital . |
| 28 | The afternoon and evening seemed to pass with agonizing slowness , yet , when the time came for Maurice 's departure , it felt to Charlotte as if it had crept up and taken them by surprise . |
| 29 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 30 | And then took er took the k took the tr the erm took the the saddle off and the lathe and and fitted it on top and then got special tools from Clarence Dock at Liverpool power station that I asked for , tools . |