Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun pl] [vb past] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In August 1941 the British and the Russians invaded Iran . |
| 2 | It was now the evening , and the officers approached Turner 's house . |
| 3 | With a month to put together a programme of events for this ‘ Reading Festival ’ , things were n't going well and the organisers approached London club owner Dave Bilk — yep , Acker 's bro — who put them on to B & H. |
| 4 | And the Moors entered Castille , in great power , for there came with them five Kings , and they past above Burgos , and crost the mountains of Oca , and plundered Carrion , and Vilforado , and Saint Domingo de la Calzada , and Logroño , and Najara , and all that land ; and they carried away many captives both male and female , and brood mares , and flocks of all kinds . |
| 5 | The Whigs rejected Lord Lyndhurst 's bill of 1842 for a small debts court , and the Lords shelved Lord Cottenham 's bill which The Times called ‘ as masterly a measure as was ever submitted to Parliament ’ , in deference to a pet bill which Lord Brougham had drafted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finally , during Pericles ' absence on a punitive expedition to Euboia , Megara revolted , and the Spartans invaded Attica , reaching Eleusis and the Thriasian plain . |
| 8 | Hannah went too , and the cameras followed Mrs Field 's forthright manner , allied to a distinct sense of humour and a stentorian voice , made a deep impression on the director and his crew — and on the television critics of the major newspapers , to judge by the reviews published the day after the first of many transmissions of Too Long a Winter . |
| 9 | As people crowded round , Valenzuela and the others bundled Maluje , kicking and screaming , into a car . |
| 10 | Fictional stressing of deep connections between primitive and developed man , as well as the connections between primitive ritual and modern dramatic and religious practice stressed by Cornford , Harrison , Frazer , and the others encouraged Eliot to interpret the Rivers book in a way which let him see in it a reflection of his personal crisis . |
| 11 | Fine Young Cannibals were singing , ‘ Jonny , we love you , wo n't you please come home ’ and the words made Terry feel like crying . |
| 12 | The judge signed the committal warrant and the police conveyed Mr. Butler to prison , giving the warrant to the governor . |
| 13 | The jury left too , and the police took Sarah and Hassan back to the prison . |
| 14 | Beirut was bombed and the Israelis invaded Lebanon , thus leading to the revised version , ‘ When one war shuts another one opens . ’ |
| 15 | Kermode 's seminar established a useful informal link with the work going on at Cambridge , and the participants included Stephen Heath , Jonathan Culler , who was at that time teaching at Cambridge , and Culler 's then wife , Veronica Forrest-Thomson . |
| 16 | The French and the Italians had ICL — the Britain-based computer maker recently bought by Fujitsu — thrown out of a number of collaborative projects financed by the Community . |
| 17 | The plan failed and the Italians invaded Abyssinia in October 1935 . |
| 18 | They came up to the gate of the city and the guards saw Rabscuttle with King Darzin 's son . |
| 19 | Then business diminished , and the partners persuaded Stratford to live off his Prescott estate in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | The piece , which has not been traced , told the story of Napoleon 's exile and death on St Helena ; its butt and villain was the English governor of the island , Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1769–1844 ) , and the characters included Napoleon 's physician , Dr Francesco Antommarchi ( 1780–1838 ) . |
| 21 | And the runners-up included BMW , Rover , Volvo , Ferrari and Citroen . |
| 22 | When Charles II and the Scots invaded England in 1651 the gathered churches raised forces to fight under Harrison against them . |
| 23 | And the signals suggested Mr Clarke may opt to extend the scope of VAT to newspapers , food , children 's clothing , and could also tinker with tax allowances to pull in extra revenue . |
| 24 | And the signals suggested Mr Clarke may opt to extend the scope of VAT to newspapers , food , children 's clothing , and could also tinker with tax allowances to pull in extra revenue . |
| 25 | Violence was a daily part of their lives , and the men paid Trent 's leash as little attention as they would have spared for the commonplace of a bleeding corpse sprawled in the gutter back home . |
| 26 | Rommel was in full retreat in Africa and the Allies re-entered Tobruk . |
| 27 | As the weather improved and the days lengthened Anne saw John several times , but usually she was on her bicycle and he was on foot . |
| 28 | Marie Claire held that this practice encouraged rats and snakes , but the maids thought Allah smiled upon their benevolence . |
| 29 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |