Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources say DEC decided on the following tags for the Alpha RISC machines it launches this Tuesday : $15,000 for the Sandpiper desktop and $18,000 for the server . |
| 2 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
| 3 | How do we know Jesus rose from the dead ? |
| 4 | Many of the would-be hotshots who entered Birmingham competed in the super division ( E5+ leaders ) , while many less experienced and often very young climbers had their first taste of competition or even indoor leading in division one ( E2-E4 ) and division two ( E2 and below ) . |
| 5 | He also wants Bovril designated as the national football drink . |
| 6 | Tess Miller studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed and recorded in this country and abroad with most of the London chamber orchestras , both as soloist and orchestral player . |
| 7 | She noticed Kattina sat on the low sofa beside her , and sat unnecessarily close . |
| 8 | The Bank Holiday clash with Leicester could see Swindon promoted to the Premier League . |
| 9 | Baillie then confronted McCubbin armed with a cut throat razor and a pump action shotgun . |
| 10 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 11 | The wilful amnesia surrounding Vichy continued into the seventies under President Georges Pompidou , but for different reasons . |
| 12 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 13 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 14 | The future should see Allen re-established as a counter-cultural household name again . |
| 15 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 17 | The deeply incised DE/ED made with a red-hot nail was visible for anyone to see . |
| 18 | In Germany striker Bruno Labbadia scored twice as leaders Bayern Munich emerged from the first division 's two-month winter break with a workmanlike 2-0 victory over struggling Bayer Uerdingen on Saturday . |
| 19 | As soon as the rhythmic motion of the cart began Willie fell into a disjointed sleep . |
| 20 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 21 | In the 1916 Easter rising Constance served with the Irish Citizen Army company at the College of Surgeons , Dublin , second-in-command to Commandant Michael Mallin . |
| 22 | He alleged Wood fell into the second category and was at the heart of the conspiracy . |
| 23 | Though it would be a great personal sadness to have to do it , it would nevertheless give her the greatest satisfaction to see Kirsty settled in a warm and loving family . |
| 24 | She waved to well-wishers at Sadler 's Wells in London where she watched Carmen performed by the British Youth Opera of which she is patron . |
| 25 | It is the day when they stand in imagination at the foot of the Cross to witness the judicial murder of Christ , to remember their own failings and to anticipate the holiday — literally the holy day — for which they have prepared throughout Lent : the day on which they believe Christ rose from the dead . |
| 26 | If you have not recovered SMP paid in an earlier tax year , please ask your local Social Security office . |
| 27 | Held over two days , each country entering one athlete per event , it is a competition well suited to the need to keep Britain established as the third-strongest athletic nation in Europe and the fourth in the world . |
| 28 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 29 | By 1987 , the SDLP was making no secret of its desire to see Thatcher re-elected for a third term . |
| 30 | The " anarchist Prince " , Petr Kropotkin , who was a boy in the Corps des Pages in the late 1850s and a revolutionary in exile by the time the reign ended , thought Alexander suffered from a split personality : " two different men lived in him , both strongly developed , struggling with each other … |