Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 2 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 3 | Some of them had pink shaved patches on their heads with electrodes that stuck up like a second pair of ears , and here and there were dark grey rats that seemed bigger than any of the others . |
| 4 | Boss David McErlain blames poor summer business and a vital sell-off deal that fell through at the last minute for this latest crisis . |
| 5 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 6 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 7 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 8 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 9 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 10 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 11 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 12 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 13 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 14 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 15 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 16 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 17 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 18 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 19 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 20 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 21 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 22 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 23 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 24 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 25 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 26 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 27 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 28 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |
| 29 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 30 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |