Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within four minutes Simmons had taken his tally to five and an own goal by Smott had given Alborne an insurmountable 8–0 lead . |
| 2 | The above ‘ spare time ’ could also include re-activating the full 39 Squadron Association Membership . |
| 3 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 4 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 5 | The Northern Ireland Appeal Court has added an extra four years to the prison sentence for Susan Christie who stabbed the wife of a lover to death . |
| 6 | In 12 years of boxing , he has won an impressive 103 bouts out of 115 , winning seven national titles at different weights . |
| 7 | Mr ferguson has won an astonishing one league championship in only his seven years at Old Trafford . |
| 8 | The Elswick Harrier , who was 40 in January , has won the traditional 5.9 mile from Balmbra 's Music Hall in the centre of Newcastle to the Geordie Ridley public house in Blaydon four times . |
| 9 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 10 | The former world featherweight champion has endured a traumatic eight months since the High Court awarded ex-manager Barney Eastwood damages following McGuigan 's criticism of the ill-fated defence against Texan Steve Cruz in June 1986 . |
| 11 | The world 's greatest jockey , 57 next Thursday and who won his first Derby on the aptly-named Never Say Die an astonishing 38 years ago , is making a rapid recovery following his spectacular fall from Mr Brooks in the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 12 | The A-12 had been designed to replace the ageing A-6 bombers currently deployed on aircraft carriers . |
| 13 | Big Ben has missed the past two finals , through injury , but showed himself right back to his best with a victory in the recent Tampa Invitational . |
| 14 | The engine has done a genuine 25,000 miles so if possible I would like to make use of it . |
| 15 | T John Yandell , one of America 's top coaches , has produced a new 60 minutes teaching video for beginners and those wishing to improve their games . |
| 16 | Labour needs to win an extra 94 seats to secure an overall majority in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | Paul Loughlin has agreed a new two year contract . |
| 18 | I want to buy a used 110 CSW and am committed to the V8 , needing its on-road performance . |
| 19 | Ben Hope 's impressive 3040 feet has become a meagre 927 metres to satisfy Brussels and Luxembourg , who could n't care less . |
| 20 | Mr Major 's visit to Barcelona for the last two days of the Games will mean he has spent an astonishing 80 days out of recession gripped Britain in the 20 months since he came to power . |
| 21 | I mean this is the kind of comment we will get from somebody who has spent the past five years on the village hall management committee . |
| 22 | As chairman of the Pitcairn Island Fund , he believes that £2 million would be sufficient to buy Pitcairn a reasonably healthy , self-sufficient future , and he has spent the past two years trying , unsuccessfully , to persuade the British government to make some contribution . |
| 23 | The right hon. Gentleman has spent the past two years as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister . |
| 24 | First across the threshold was longest serving resident 78-year-old Nellie Everett who has spent the past 16 years at Kingsley Ward . |
| 25 | But the programme — accused by parents and staff of misrepresenting Summerhill — has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of Shinichiro Hori , the 48-year-old professor of elementary education at Osaka University who has spent the past eight years planning and raising money to open Kinokuni . |
| 26 | An object is still the same object , is it not , whether it has spent the past 300 years on a mantelpiece or on the floor of the sea ? |
| 27 | He is also the latest discovery of British psychologist Dr Neil O'Connor , the world 's foremost expert on savants and the man who has spent the past ten years helping to unlock the genius trapped within their flawed minds . |
| 28 | John Browning , the farmer on whose land the twelve statuettes were found , has spent the past ten years and £100,000 in pursuit of the bronzes . |
| 29 | Both the Mucker shrine and its indignant notice are the work of Kavanagh 's younger brother , Dr Peter Kavanagh , now 73 , one-time Professor of Poetry at Wisconsin University , who has spent the past 25 years in New York promoting and publishing Patrick 's work . |
| 30 | Kylie has felt the pace and has spent the past 24 hours in bed with a stomach upset . |