Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jason Drysdale , the son of a former Hartlepool United defender , caught out Middlesbrough with a superb free-kick for David Holdsworth to score . |
| 2 | The railroads began to open up America during the 1830s : the ‘ De Witt Clinton ’ , one of the most historic locomotives on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad , 1831 . |
| 3 | After their early opportunity Holland did not glimpse another scoring chance until eight minutes before half-time , when Kieft and Koeman combined to set up Berghuis for a hard , low cross which Taffarel could not hold . |
| 4 | Tippett turned down Auden as a possible collaborator . |
| 5 | Now , look up Livesey in the classified telephone directory . |
| 6 | The Spirit marks out Stephen as a special vehicle of God when he refuses to remain restricted to the static categories of the temple and moves into broader pastures ( 6:3,5,10 , 7:55 ) . |
| 7 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 8 | Ansah finished off Leicester with a superb goal . |
| 9 | NEWCASTLE 'S Gavin Peacock is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off WATFORD in a 2–0 victory . |
| 10 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 11 | It was a hard , bloody fight lasting 3 hours and 16 minutes ( this time still stands as a world record for a championship fight ) before Burke knocked out Byrne with a tremendous punch , thus becoming recognised champion . |
| 12 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 13 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 14 | The week before England took on Scotland for the Grand Slam , Harlequins travelled to Gloucester for a league match . |
| 15 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |
| 16 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 17 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 18 | From this meeting they sent back Curzon with a formal resolution , urging Asquith 's immediate resignation , and saying that he must in any event accept and publish theirs . |
| 19 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 20 | Cricket now , and Northamptonshire are on the verge of a place in the NatWest Trophy final at Lords.They bowled out Warwickshire for a hundred and forty nine in the semi final at Edgbaston , and were further helped by some disastrous Warwickshire batting . |
| 21 | ‘ I can not drive out Medoc without the Royal Houses who have been lost , but now are found . |
| 22 | After a dramatic ‘ slide rule ’ finish , Hampshire 's men edged out Yorkshire by a single rubber after three had tied on two group wins . |
| 23 | Wimbledon v Derby County Wimbledon leave out Fashanu for the fourth successive game , keeping faith with the veteran Cork . |
| 24 | Guisborough take on Northallerton in a First Division game , while Second Division promotion chasers Durham tackle Shotton. — BLYTH and Northallerton are the latest clubs to inform the Northern League that they will take promotion at the end of the season if it comes their way . |
| 25 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 26 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 27 | The County Union is looking into the Boyce Hill boy 's absence and Lockwood will wait for the outcome before he names the squad to take on Hertfordshire in the second match in July . |
| 28 | Sunderland caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby believes his side still needs one more win to avoid going to Wembley to take on Liverpool as the only Third Division side to contest an FA Cup final . |
| 29 | He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition . |
| 30 | The trade was sufficiently profitable for the Portuguese to take over Sofala in the early sixteenth century , and their written accounts confirm that the export cargoes were brought to the coast by African representatives of the Shona king or monomutapa . |