Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 2 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 3 | The traffic was light : the blue twinkle of a Mitchum magnet train on the Phobos-Byzantium run ; a little old Fargo slipping down the gradient from Longevity or Silverside , fresh vegetables for the Martians . |
| 4 | •Sandy Lyle turned down the invitation to play in the 1989 Ryder Cup . |
| 5 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 6 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 7 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 8 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 9 | Two hours flew by before Justin Feltham 's Tiny Tim brought down the curtain with his ‘ and God bless us , every one . ’ |
| 10 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 11 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 12 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 14 | Bachelor 's Button and Pretty Polly brought up the rear . |
| 15 | All Egypt hung on the result . |
| 16 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 17 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
| 18 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 19 | After that Jack gave up the skiing altogether and I took it very steady . |
| 20 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 21 | Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides . |
| 22 | Bristol City 1 Middlesbrough 1 MIDDLESBROUGH threw away the lead and two promotion points against ten-man relegation-fighting Bristol . |
| 23 | Bristol C 1 Middlesbrough 1 MIDDLESBROUGH threw away the lead and two promotion points against ten-man relegation-fighting Bristol . |
| 24 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 25 | PROFITS at Harland & Wolff , the privatised Belfast shipbuilder where the majority shareholder is the Norwegian Fred Olsen group , slumped to £2.1m during 1991 compared with £11.7m in the 18 months previously , after provisions of £4m for redundancies and for its Trassey Shipping associate . |
| 26 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 27 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 28 | In October 1953 Khrushchev replaced Malenkov at the head of the party , and in 1955 Bulganin took over the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | The producer Ben Kadish thought that if he could get the ‘ hot ’ Hoffman to play opposite her , he would be able to convince Twentieth Century-Fox to put up the money and release it . |
| 30 | The new LEAs took over the responsibility to provide adequate facilities for elementary education and in addition were authorised to provide ‘ education other than elementary ’ , either by setting up new secondary schools or by aiding existing ones in their area . |