Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 2 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |
| 3 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 4 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 5 | " If you say so , " agreed Chuck with a happy laugh . |
| 6 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 7 | Miss F met Courtney at the Royal Free Hospital when she had her baby by caesarean section . |
| 8 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 9 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 10 | What is odd about the fact that admiral Horley ruled Hungary between the two War World Wars ? |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been listening , ’ announced Ken in a pointed BBC accent , ‘ to an excerpt from Forever Amber . ’ |
| 12 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 13 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 14 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 15 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 16 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 17 | Contrary to the norm for a Yorkshire dale , the young men did venture outside to seek their partners and John met Marie at a fair . |
| 18 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 19 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you joining us for a swim ? ’ asked David in a loud voice . |
| 21 | Nutty let out a genuine snort of rage , nudged Midnight with her heels and rode Antony into a large patch of thistles , towing the Badminton mare with her . |
| 22 | But as they approached Kingsbere after a long and tiring day 's journey , a man came to tell them there were no rooms available . |
| 23 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 24 | One such was the Duke of Richmond who found Sussex in the 1740s in the midst of what a number of local historians have rightly described as a ‘ guerilla war ’ . |
| 25 | With the help of friends , Seth lured Osiris into a coffin-like box . |
| 26 | Colleagues described Dorrance as a gentlemanly , compassionate man with a lot of moral commitment . |
| 27 | He described Chelsea as a little village a couple of miles from London where the Thames ran between nurseries and market gardens , ‘ of which there are a frightful number ’ . |
| 28 | He was ambitious and he regarded Middlesbrough as a big club . |
| 29 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 30 | Having gently and efficiently helped Luce into a loose cotton nightdress , the housekeeper was just tucking in the light counterpane when another knock heralded the doctor . |