Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 2 | A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman on Dec. 2 denied the latest allegations , stressing that " Pakistan 's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes " , but added that " in the evolution of this programme Pakistan has acquired some technical capabilities " . |
| 3 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 4 | It is usually accepted that such milestones were measured from civitas capitals or cities , suggesting that by the AD 270s Water Newton had achieved this rank and was responsible for the local government of its hinterland . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |
| 6 | In masochism the energy is directed on to the ego , not an object , where the ego is itself libidinized as in narcissism. rn this way Freud had moved some way to producing a new synthesis of the three dichotomies : ego instincts , and sexual instincts ; ego and object choices within one set of instincts only , the sexual instincts ; and , finally , the life instincts ( sexual ) and the death instincts . |
| 7 | This year Scotland have won all their home games , against Wales , Ireland and Fiji , scoring nearly 100 points in a style brimful of colour and movement . |
| 8 | By this time Cecilia had forgotten all about not pushing past the bear to press the button and get out . |
| 9 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 10 | At this stage Cliftonville had shown little menace in the last third of the pitch , but they rocked the Blues by taking the lead two minutes before half-time . |
| 11 | For some time MacDonald managed to ride this deterioration with remarkable aplomb . |
| 12 | In this connection Hughes has described some work by Lawrence and Lorsch ( Hughes et al. |
| 13 | SECOND division BEDFORD have appointed former Bristol and England flanker Mike Rafter as their new coach after parting company with New Zealander Ian Snook , coach for the past three years , Snook is now expected to join Old Wesley in Dublin . |
| 14 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 15 | In the early days Diana had had some guidance from Sir Richard Attenborough . |
| 16 | In September 1991 President Mitterrand had announced that production would be reduced from 120 to 30 missiles . |
| 17 | Against these dubious features Grafpad does posses several very useful facilities . |
| 18 | It is the second time Basingstoke have won this competition , which has been dominated by Havant . |
| 19 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople . |
| 20 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to thirtysomething , leaving Pick with its development core and about five sales people . |
| 21 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 22 | SUNDERLAND-based Harry Williams looks to have another puppy sensation on his hands . |
| 23 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |
| 24 | In later life Bohr tended to exalt this useful observation of alternative and mutually exclusive descriptions into a grand philosophical principle . |
| 25 | It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion . |
| 26 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 27 | Good job Tom had got all the horses in , though . |
| 28 | As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business . |
| 29 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 30 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |