Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 3 | When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres . |
| 4 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 5 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 6 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 7 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 8 | With three matches to go , NSW 's , outright victory over SA pushed them up into equal second place with WA , two points behind leaders and defending champions Victory and two points clear of Queensland , who have a game in hand . |
| 9 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 10 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 11 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 12 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 13 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 14 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 15 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 16 | The present landlady , Mrs Margaret Saunders took it on in 1941 when Polish servicemen from a nearby camp were regulars . |
| 17 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 18 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 19 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 20 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 21 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 22 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 23 | Michele followed her in with steaming bowls of soup , a cheese board , and a selection of fresh fruit . |
| 24 | His stumbling gait took him off in all directions except the one he wanted to go in . |
| 25 | By the time London Transport took them over in 1933 , all but two had been so modified . |
| 26 | Flap 15° brought it back to 55 kts and full flap took off another three knots . |
| 27 | ‘ Fish kept us out in 1972 , and may do so again , ’ says Gro Harlem Brundtland , the prime minister . |
| 28 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 29 | Hazel held him down with both forepaws and he grew quieter . |
| 30 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |