Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following year , 1805 , he designed for Greenock a domed school with a Greek Doric portico , and in 1808 a French neo-classical scheme with Greek Doric porticoes for the enlargement of Broomhall , Dunfermline , for Thomas Bruce , seventh Earl of Elgin [ q.v. ] , both of which remained on paper . |
| 2 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 3 | Apologies from the shepherding sergeant drew from Charity a bitter comment about having discovered Hell on Earth at Willesden . |
| 4 | The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall : |
| 5 | He found in Byers a bracing scepticism like his own . |
| 6 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 7 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 8 | Hubert Butler joined the Palace from Chorley in the summer of 1928 , having previously played for Blackpool , with a reputation as a proven goalscoring inside-left , even if his Palace debut was in the disastrous ( and record ) defeat ( 1–8 ) we sustained at Northampton the following October . |
| 9 | Overcoming a certain lethargy we sailed for Oban a few hours later . |
| 10 | But news of the massacre of Russian troops stationed in Warsaw , combined with what seemed in Russia a serious threat of foreign intervention on the rebels ’ side , altered attitudes dramatically . |
| 11 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 12 | The party 's central executive council chose Kim as Roh 's successor , and conferred upon Roh the ceremonial title of honorary party president . |
| 13 | After much laborious correspondence we received from China the following : ‘ We believe that no one outside of this country will have access to the mule and her foal in Honan Province because such matters will have to be approved by the authorities here . |
| 14 | He came to Baldersdale a hundred years or so ago to help construct the Hury Reservoir — I think Low Birk Hatt was built around the same time . |
| 15 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 16 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 17 | Davis came to Brentwood a 16-12 loser to Hendry in the UK final and is going through a patch where he is making more unforced errors than usual . |
| 18 | Davis came to Brentwood a 16-12 loser to Hendry in the UK final and is going through a patch where he is making more unforced errors than usual . |
| 19 | When Ika came to London the following year , he was to describe Buckingham Palace , by comparison , as ‘ a modest little house ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a peculiar fact of life that since tourism came to España the average height of our nation has increased dramatically . |
| 21 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 22 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 23 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 24 | He came at eleven o'clock , which seemed to Lydia a reasonable hour , an indication of natural good manners . |
| 25 | Even the oblique implication that he had feared to put his purpose into effect seemed to Harry a new pitfall for his integrity of hatred . |
| 26 | In the circumstances ‘ dead on schedule ’ hardly seemed to Lewis the happiest of phrases , but he knew that Morse was right about the call from Babington 's . |
| 27 | This time , without even the zest of being able to assess the success of his recipes from the quantities consumed or left on plates , it seemed to Auguste a sorry place indeed . |
| 28 | And it seemed to Dalgliesh an ironic twist of fate that it should be he , whom Berowne had shown a disposition to trust , who should now be travelling to begin that inexorable process of violation . |
| 29 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 30 | There seemed to Sycorax a great need to placate the gods ; within the winding sheet of her bodily agony , she could feel another grief , that she had neglected them , had scorned the gifts they had lavished on her , taken them as they came instead of with gratitude due . |