Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 2 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 3 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 4 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 5 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 6 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 7 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 8 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 9 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 10 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 11 | Edberg 's victory lifted him over American Jim Courier to the top of the world rankings . |
| 12 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 13 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
| 14 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 15 | His younger brother , Richard , Duke of York , joined him on 16th June . |
| 16 | Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 . |
| 17 | Cyril opened it on 22 June 43 1 , before the supporters of Nestorius had arrived . |
| 18 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 19 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 20 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 21 | So much so , that he recently purchased a massive ex-display tank , set it up in his dining room and stocked it with wild-caught Malawis , many of which are now breeding regularly . |
| 22 | They wasted no time in coming up with a replacement for another New Zealander , Murray Kidd , who guided them to All Ireland League honours in 1992 . |
| 23 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 24 | After a parliamentary investigation 's report named him on 3 February , Grenoble 's chief prosecutor called off an anti-Mafia investigation , saying the release of the report had wasted months of work by alerting Pagano that he was under suspicion . |
| 25 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 26 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
| 27 | HAMISH BOWLES met her on Long Island |
| 28 | I took you through old London 's streets , |
| 29 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 30 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |