Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 2 | On the mayor 's , on the mayor 's casting vote I vote this in favour of the motion . |
| 3 | SCIENTISTS have developed a vaccine against types of pneumonia , meningitis and blood poisoning which claim thousands of lives in Britain a year and 10 million lives worldwide . |
| 4 | Oldham will be unchanged from the side which drew 3-3 against Manchester City as skipper Mike Milligan , who needed three stitches in a mouth wound , has passed himself fit . |
| 5 | Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road . |
| 6 | Magilton was missing from the side which lost three-one to Spain in Seville last month . |
| 7 | Jenny found herself dragged uncomfortably over the gear-stick and hand-brake , her left cheek was pressed in against her teeth by the pressure of an ardent but misdirected kiss and she felt a button on her cardigan give with a violence which boded ill for Marks and Sparks cowering beneath . |
| 8 | The prospect of a future which provides hundreds of television channels gives Madison Avenue nightmares . |
| 9 | However , by combining the FT-SE 100 ( UK shares ) and the FT-SE Eurotrack 100 ( non-UK European shares ) it was possible to create a synthetic index future which covered all of Europe . |
| 10 | Flooding may have brought misery to some , but for this jet skier the lakes which cover thousands of acres of Gloucestershire fields are there to be enjoyed . |
| 11 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 12 | Barnett himself hit 61 after Devon Malcolm and Dominic Cork combined to restrict Northants to 210 all out . |
| 13 | Meet at the Gatehouse , Cemetery Road at 14.00 for these walks which cost 1 with tea and biscuits included . |
| 14 | It had been alleged that the 75-year-old peer had in May 1945 defied orders , deceived superiors and conspired to bring about the tragedy which befell thousands of Cossacks and Yugoslavs , forcibly repatriated by British forces from Southern Austria to Soviet and Titoist forces . |
| 15 | We ‘ ve all got one of those pictures of ourselves , bleak little icons of guilt and hope and fearfulness , pictures which mark one of life 's great ‘ intervals ’ . |
| 16 | The importance of their eligibility lay in the opportunities which became available to universities , stimulating new policies for , and provision of , adult education . |
| 17 | Electors will not forget vote which hits potential for jobs |
| 18 | The Palace , St Michael 's Church , and the many historic buildings and monuments along the High Street line the south shore of Linlithgow loch which enhances one of Scotland 's most historic towns . |
| 19 | The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types . |
| 20 | MIRROR readers who lost thousands of pounds when a holiday company went bust may get some money back . |
| 21 | If you were a Parquet lawyer you got used to cases getting nowhere ; but that did n't mean you liked it . |
| 22 | After her first five years apprenticeship she became involved with transport and it was here that she was destined to make her mark and has continued to do so for 37 years . |
| 23 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |
| 24 | Understandably , whilst we are all concerned with crime we hear little of burglary and yet we have something like 60 new reported crimes a day the vast majority are burglaries and I just wish we could do more about those crimes . |
| 25 | On Saturday they banged 3 past Southend . |
| 26 | Also playing tomorrow night Hereford United … they 're at home to Crewe and they too could do with a win … on Saturday they lost two-nil at Wrexham |
| 27 | Yet Kraal grew increasingly irritable as the autumn advanced , and though he would talk to Woil he became ill-tempered with Minch who , he said , spoke a lot but did little . |
| 28 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 29 | During this period , through his constant contacts with officials in Brussels he became involved in club programmes . |
| 30 | Shaikh Saad submitted his government 's resignation on March 20 , officially in order to allow the Amir to take whatever action he deemed appropriate in preparation for Kuwait 's reconstruction . |