Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NEXT TIME Heathcliff came to Thrushcross Grange , he met Isabella by chance in front of the house . |
| 2 | All things considered , it 's hardly surprising that the Czech delegation to ‘ Galleries and Private Collectors ’ , expressed fears about an impending mass sell-off and export of art , and made calls for legislation regarding art and commerce . |
| 3 | How to find the money necessary to carry out Amnesty 's work has always been a worry , and from the very beginning the Section Office asked groups for help in this area . |
| 4 | In a letter to Archy Kirkwood , MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire , Sir Hector said that the survey made by Borders NFU , after Government lopped £2.25 per ewe off Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances , ignored very large compensating increases which had been made to farmers . |
| 5 | He laid foundations for Christianity in the city which were to survive the coming of the Barbarians . |
| 6 | My eyes became coals of fire in my head , and I believed every moment that I was condemned to perish in the belly of a whale . |
| 7 | The Cuban law made provision for compensation with government bonds , redeemable within twenty years with an annual interest rate of 4.5 per cent . |
| 8 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 9 | Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor . |
| 10 | Publicly-controlled since 1943 , and a loss-maker for much of the period since , it came as little surprise when , Chris Patten , a junior Northern Ireland minister , announced plans for privatisation in 1988 . |
| 11 | * Responding to criticism from neighbouring countries , Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer announced plans for legislation under which exporters who dumped waste illegally abroad would be liable to prison terms of up to 10 years . |
| 12 | Gilbert was dragged with him , and twisted to rise as Rohmer wiped streaks of blood from his face . |
| 13 | Mecdi is even more specific : " [ While teaching at the Sahn ] he became kazasker in place of Hocazade … |
| 14 | Sprawled out across it were a rabble of Russian fugitives , whilst ahead a thin dark line of guns crept foot by foot towards the safety of the opposite shore . |
| 15 | We posted requests for help to a cross-party selection of 15 MPs . |
| 16 | The girl 's death produced reactions of grief in policemen , strangers , politicians , as well as family friends , some of whom offered advice . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1962 , in Appropinquante Concilio , Pope John promulgated rules of procedure for the Council ( confirmed with some additional points the following year by Paul VI 's Ordo Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani Secundi ) . |
| 18 | With his hands protected by rubber gauntlets , he passed bucket after bucket of soggy glass fibre wool though the trap door into my waiting aching arms . |
| 19 | Judge Arbuthnot passed sentence of death by hanging , or exile to the penal colonies in the West Indies , on the men of Prosperous . |
| 20 | Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron . |
| 21 | Object Design Inc is getting ready to ship ObjectStore 2.0 , claiming that the enhancements made thanks to feedback from the likes of IBM , SunSoft Inc and NeXt Inc raises the benchmark by which all commercial object database products will be judged . |
| 22 | Thirty years ago , a national commission chaired by Kenneth Ryan produced guidelines for research on living human fetuses . |
| 23 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 24 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
| 25 | Iraq 's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait caused a dramatic increase in oil prices ; the " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had fallen to $16.60 per barrel on June 5 , rose to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 and passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 . |
| 26 | In 1958 the ubiquitous Micky Watson became President in addition to Hon. |
| 27 | Lady Braithwaite , Molly 's sister-in-law became President in succession to Kay Evans in 1983 . |
| 28 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 29 | The local papers got wind in advance of what was happening and I was petrified that the police would come bursting in to arrest us all . |
| 30 | A tailor made programme of training to be run in-house is also under investigation |