Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adrian Hadley , Salford 's £120,000 winger , has joined Widnes in a swap deal for Great Britain under-21 forward Jason Critchley and utility man Steve Wynne . |
| 2 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 3 | Their father , John Wordsworth , a law-agent in Cockermouth , sent Dorothy to be brought up in Halifax by a relative , and before long had enrolled William in a boarding-school at Hawkshead . |
| 4 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 5 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 6 | There are two types of Le Roitelet Brie : 52% fat which develops a full , pronounced flavour when ripened ; and 60% fat which is a fully matured Brie with a lighter , buttery taste . |
| 7 | I have included Equuleus in the map with Delphinus . |
| 8 | His latest theatre has included Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Nights Dream and the fascinating double Hugo/Frederick in Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon at the open air theatre in Regent 's park , London . |
| 9 | I 'd parked Armstrong around the side of Sedgeley House in one of the diagonal streets that run off to the Edgware Road . |
| 10 | Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand . |
| 11 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
| 12 | I have included Norma in the map with Ara . |
| 13 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 14 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 15 | Over 40 years ' experience of the nuclear industry has installed AEA at the forefront of decommissioning technology in the UK and worldwide . |
| 16 | He was also accused of having committed Falkirk to a contract for the sale of its ground at Brockville Park and the purchase of a site for a new ground without the board 's knowledge . |
| 17 | The Pact was founded in 1973 and had included Chile as a member until 1976 . |
| 18 | Martina is n't the only player to have dropped Pam as a partner , by the way . |
| 19 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 20 | There was no evidence that Berowne had started his own meal — that in itself might be of some help in deciding on the approximate time of death — but he had apparently either cajoled Harry into the church with the promise of a meal or , more likely , had supplied an obvious and immediate need before he was ready for his own share of the supper . |
| 21 | After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events . |
| 22 | On Feb. 25 Soviet Vice-President Gennady Yanayev disclosed that after the start of the land war Gorbachev had telephoned Bush with an appeal to halt the offensive . |
| 23 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 24 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 25 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 26 | Recent parts have included Helena in A Midsummer Night 's Dream and the title rôle in Euripides ' Electra . |
| 27 | Significantly , on one occasion he was supposed to have wounded Hera in the breast . |
| 28 | Actually , it 's all theoretical stuff , as frankly it 's too cold to do much motorcycling on my wonderfully rebuilt MZ with the chrome mudguard . |
| 29 | The only big centres to have outperformed Edinburgh in the research rankings were Cambridge , Oxford and University College London . |
| 30 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |