Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewart last made the news himself during the Soviet coup in August 1991 . |
| 2 | Charles and his brother James also attacked the charter itself in the courts . |
| 3 | I caught the message which in effect meant , ‘ Please , no word to my mother about our adventure . ’ |
| 4 | His return journey had been even more dramatic , on a fishing boat , and for the first week he charged the families nothing at all . |
| 5 | In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers . |
| 6 | Yet another element was added to the civilization of Palermo ; and at the very end of our period , in the late 1140s , King Roger II , greatest of the Norman rulers of south Italy and Sicily , created the monument which above all others links us to his world , the royal chapel , the Capella Palatina , Norman Romanesque in architecture , Byzantine in its mosaics , Islamic in its strange and fascinating ceiling . |
| 7 | The jury found the libel itself to be worth only £5,000 . |
| 8 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 9 | And Jesus himself had to be divorced from his historical context , turned into a non-political figure — an other-worldly , spiritual Messiah who posed no challenge whatever to Caesar . |
| 10 | The figure before me bore no relation whatever to the Alec I remembered . |
| 11 | So it was again later , but from the mid eighth century to the mid sixth she found a rival who at times surpassed her , Corinth . |
| 12 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 13 | An eager throng approached a lady who in great style bids you begone , for her hotel is full , while the ostler outside advises you to try again . |
| 14 | The exclusive occupation of the tenant coupled with the payment of rent created a tenancy which at common law could be terminated and converted into a licence as soon as the landlord exercised his power to share occupation . |
| 15 | Then they and the Russian had deposed him and installed the Shah himself on the throne in 1941 . |
| 16 | ‘ Has Canon Wheeler told the police anything about his visits from Paul and his quarrel , would you suppose ? ’ |
| 17 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 18 | And then came the question which against reason he had to ask : |
| 19 | He played the accompaniments himself at this stage . |
| 20 | He filed the petition himself at Middlesbrough County Court . |
| 21 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 22 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 23 | Kee establishes , quite convincingly , that Jesus in effect played no part whatever in the religion of Constantine . |
| 24 | A rationalisation of this approach might be that late payment of bills involved no interest charges , and that house purchase secured an asset which with luck would keep its value . |
| 25 | In the early fifteenth century Albrecht II became Holy Roman Emperor and the title remained with the House of Habsburg from 1437 until 1806 , when Napoleon abolished the institution which by that time was , in Voltaire 's words of 1756 , ‘ neither Holy , nor Roman , nor an empire ’ . |
| 26 | Above : Bill refitted the bathroom himself with the help of his father . |
| 27 | Then she did an unheard-of thing , she threw the ladle itself onto the white cloth and stalked from the room , leaving Agnes looking towards the door that had banged closed and thinking , Goodness me ! |
| 28 | The two Marines paid no attention whatever to him as he stood waiting to pass . |
| 29 | He paid no attention whatsoever to the two men seated in the corner . |
| 30 | In the early Eighties , she organized a venture which above all else satisfied her craving for rescuing the past with no obvious monetary benefit . |