Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A break of 80 helped O'Neill to recover to 3-3 but a 50 sparked a two frame roll that swept Rowing to victory . |
| 2 | It took only a micro-second , but it told Jezrael to prepare for some movement from Kandinskaya 's left hand . |
| 3 | I got Ashenden to collect in all their passports this morning . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I never expected Maurice to die in such a way . |
| 5 | But it would be a mistake to believe that from the beginning Baldwin exercised all the power and merely allowed MacDonald to sit in impotent glory in 10 Downing Street . |
| 6 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 7 | After the decline of the port , largely as a result of the abolition of slavery , this modernization once again allowed Bristol to compete with other great commercial docks such as Liverpool and London ( qq.v . ) . |
| 8 | There were nervous moments in the grand slam match for England as with two minutes left , they allowed France to pull within two points when Camberaberaux converted a try . |
| 9 | Bob Kimmins heaved open the floodgates and Mike Fielden , Hesketh with a second , Brendan Hanavan , Allan Wyllie and Charles Cusani allowed Lancashire to pour through unopposed . |
| 10 | The development of a form of representative democracy in the nineteenth century led Dicey to distinguish between legal sovereignty , which continued to reside with the triumvirate of the monarch , Lords , and Commons , and political sovereignty , which he deemed to rest with the electorate . |
| 11 | Hrawi asked Hoss to continue as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed . |
| 12 | But doctors said yesterday the knee was still inflamed and ordered Platt to rest for several days . |
| 13 | His misfortunes spurred Galt to write with renewed vigour and until near the end of his life his output was voluminous . |
| 14 | There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office . |
| 15 | Further modifications led Iraq to claim in 1989 the development of a second missile , the al-Abbas , with a 900-km range . |
| 16 | In 1731 a friend , Ambrosius Beurer , introduced young Ehret to the celebrated Dr Christopher Jacob Trew of Nürnberg , another physician-botanist , whose encouragement enabled Ehret to develop into one of the foremost botanical illustrators of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Rebekah sent Jacob to stay with Laban for ‘ a while ’ . |
| 18 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 19 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 20 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 21 | The public prosecutor asked for a four-year sentence , but the judge sent Meyer to jail for six years . |
| 22 | One evening her friends , reviewing the dwindling stocks of sweets in their tuck boxes , asked Diana to rendezvous with another girl at the end of the school drive and collect more supplies from her . |
| 23 | Ill health obliged Brooke to retire in 1813 . |
| 24 | Longer-term planning forced BR to embark upon life-extension programmes for several locomotive types expected to be needed until well into the 1990s , although they were halted in 1989 before being completed . |
| 25 | In years gone by the club chairman brought a certain local charm to the game ; there was Jan Stepek of Hamilton Accies who made his fortune from renting TV sets to Motherwell 's seething masses , Hal Stewart who forced Morton to play in day-glo orange , and Old Man Dayell , the west-coast food magnate whose personal fortune was amassed selling half-time mutton pies then partially squandered trying to turn Airdrie into AC Milan . |
| 26 | The wave of selling forced Italy to devalue by six per cent last weekend . |
| 27 | I would like to know what is your favourite ex-Leeds player , that is a player who left Leeds to play for another team . |
| 28 | Having experienced none of these things , what right had Louisa to judge of this ? |
| 29 | On a tie-break ( Peter had Wales to win by four points ) victory went to the Mailman and to him goes the Tipster Trophy plus a cash prize of £500 . |
| 30 | He expected Charity to scoff at such weakness , but surprisingly , she seemed only to be concerned with how that could be arranged . |