Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revolving light carousels played on the compartment side of a Mk. 1 coach while wind and rain machines battered the corridor side from which David Boyce had to fall and , later Alfred Molina had to dive , to their ‘ deaths ’ . |
| 2 | On Tuesday , a group of MPs and peers met the Home Secretary on behalf of 17 people convicted in connection with the first two great IRA outrages on the British mainland during the present phase of the Irish troubles . |
| 3 | It came as senior members of the magistrates association met the Home Secretary in London to seek changes in the new fines system . |
| 4 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 5 | ‘ Mo ’ cars , ’ he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T-junction . |
| 6 | Near Hawthornden Castle is Ben Jonson 's Tree ; the newly appointed Poet Laureate , Ben Jonson walked from London to Hawthornden in 1618 and met the Poet Drummond under this particular tree . |
| 7 | A recent US Supreme Court case , Feist Publications Inc v Rural Telephone Service Company , has ruled that a database would only be able to gain copyright protection if it met the copyright standard of ‘ originality ’ in its mode of functioning ; copyright protection would not simply be extended to include items which took effort on the part of the owner to compile . |
| 8 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 9 | They still ( like Citrine himself ) lacked the threshold level of knowledge necessary to make serious contributions to the more technical decisions , but they soon acquired the expertise to translate known needs into appropriate Whitehall language , according to the changing fashions dictated by public opinion or cabinet preoccupations . |
| 10 | New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night . |
| 11 | Last week , Sun pop columnist Piers Morgan branded the cover image of murdered Guatemalan street child Carmona Lopez ‘ the most tasteless record sleeve of the year ’ . |
| 12 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 13 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 14 | When I heard Richard on the stairs , I emptied the ash tray into a drawer : he never smoked himself and disliked my doing so . |
| 15 | The knight emptied the wine goblet in one gulp . |
| 16 | When the little family reached the Watermen , Connor unlocked the side door of the pub and helped Ruth in with the pram . |
| 17 | She unlocked the scullery door at seven-fifteen this morning — actually , she was late . |
| 18 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 19 | Treatment with bFGF almost doubled the DNA synthesis at the ulcer margin and in the non ulcerated mucosa . |
| 20 | NCR also doubled the cache memory per processor on its NCR 3550 2 to 8 processor system to 512Kb . |
| 21 | Their new organisation ( known as the conventional long-wall system ) divided the mining work into three separate tasks or shifts . |
| 22 | The entrance divided the north wing into two unequal parts while the bath-house , placed beyond an outer court , was reached by a covered corridor . |
| 23 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 24 | We divided the study population into two groups : subjects with symptoms suggestive of involvement of the entire gastrointestinal tract , and subjects with disease limited to the stomach and small intestine . |
| 25 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 26 | Strangely drawn to the light he unearthed the dragon armour of Aenarion . |
| 27 | Several hundred Kurds picketed the Home Office in protest at the continuing detentions and the deportations back to Turkey where they are said to face oppression and torture . |
| 28 | TO MARK Black History Month in America , Giant Food stores kept leaflets explaining the lives of black leaders , and African storytellers haunted the clothing department at Macy 's . |
| 29 | A court in Cleveland , Ohio was told of the extraordinary inventiveness , not to mention athleticism , that coloured the sex life of Dr David Love and his wife Virginia who , on at least three occasions , made love hanging from a window of their fourth floor apartment . |
| 30 | They were the bejewelled and silken-turbaned villains who coloured the pirate archetype of our Western imaginations , wielding their blades and their sea-skills like demons , and bequeathing us their name for our night-mares . |