Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 3 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 4 | Eventually he managed to turn this into a special trick , with the cat knocking down a coin each time his owner clicked his fingers . |
| 5 | US Secretary of State James Baker also visited Poland on May 6 to brief Polish leaders and to pass over a West German invitation for Poland to join the July round of two-plus-four talks in Paris . |
| 6 | Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to stop you , but if you send off a cheque this weekend , that 'll be the end of it . ’ |
| 8 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 9 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |
| 10 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 11 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 12 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 13 | Jumble up the shades cottage-garden style or choose a cool colour such as cream that will show up on dark wintry days . |
| 14 | RAUNCHY EX-MODEL , 17 YEARS , looking for a gorgeous , mad lad who enjoys a good laugh and good dance at a ’ wild ’ club ’ So how about checking out a club one night in Nottingham/Derby/Leicester area followed by ’ a coffee ’ ! ' |
| 15 | So I thought perhaps someone was playing a joke on me for , for a television show what Bobby Vinton would do if he found out a number one record in England . |
| 16 | We would not have known it was here , unless we had carried out the exercise last night . |
| 17 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 18 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 19 | I blacked out a bit last night . |
| 20 | Encapsulated in their nose-to-tail cars , stranded drivers read papers , picked their noses and talked to themselves , resigned to the rush-hour wait along the Chiswick High Road . |
| 21 | A Libyan vessel inside US waters , eager to test its equipment , shoots down a US civilian airliner . |
| 22 | When he filled in a South African immigration questionnaire in 1947 he wrote ‘ Human ’ in the space marked ‘ Race ’ . |
| 23 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 24 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 25 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 26 | I turn right , and walk along the balcony that way , so I do n't pass in front of Jancey 's window . |
| 27 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 28 | They cut off the electricity last week . |
| 29 | ‘ Or these , ’ she added , picking up a gossamer fine silk stocking and crumpling it into a weightless ball in her hand . |
| 30 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |