Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on Sunset Strip , some weird friends of Dean cashed in on his death and began holding court , relating tales of the Jimmy they knew . |
| 2 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 3 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 4 | No , do n't bother to voice the protest I see forming on your beautiful lips ; it will happen sooner or later , but I agree with you that we must get this business of Garry cleared up first . |
| 5 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 7 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 8 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 9 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 10 | And a combination of that early research and the Trent Bridge base aided his biography of Arthur Shrewsbury , Give Me Arthur : ‘ One day the door opened and an elderly man who introduced himself as a relative of Shrewsbury came in . |
| 11 | For years it was assumed that the bear of Croisset broke out of his bearishness solely with Louise Colet — ‘ the only sentimental episode of any importance in the life of Flaubert , ’ Emile Faguet declared . |
| 12 | When Bishop Compton of Lichfield carried out a national survey in 1676 , it was estimated that five percent of the county 's population were ‘ sectaries ’ . |
| 13 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 14 | This study indicates that the natural gas deposits of the Federal Republic of Germany accumulated in relatively recent geological times , i.e. during the late Mesozoic and/or the Cainozoic , either as a result of an additional subsidence and consequently additional heating of the Upper Carboniferous , or of telemagmatic heating effects . |
| 15 | Six weeks or so later my novel The Rivers of Babylon came out . |
| 16 | Old men of Flanders turned around , |
| 17 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 18 | The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds . |
| 19 | The lights of Rialto slid by on the right . |
| 20 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 21 | The French were restless , and Joan of Arc stirred up patriotism and led a revolt against the reign of King Henry VI . |
| 22 | He must have been trying to hide the feelings that the sight of Rocamar conjured up , for he himself had dubbed it a romantic dream — and the dream had failed . |
| 23 | In the late 330s , after Alexander had entered and taken over Egypt , his officer Peukestas son of Makartatos put up what is the earliest Greek documentary papyrus from Egypt . |
| 24 | The island of Angistri went up in flames within minutes of being declared a wildlife refuge . |
| 25 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 26 | The people of Haworth came out to watch us . |
| 27 | J. Smart of Powys lived up to his name , and was the only entrant to get it right . |
| 28 | THE Duke of Florentino pulled up his trousers and shouted at his reflection . |
| 29 | Once again the inspiration the sheer skill of Hoddle shone through . |
| 30 | Iraq has urged Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to unite , there are fears that the emergency Arab summit will collapse after the of Kuwait walked out . |