Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the irish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some weeks after this Party launch , one key member was shot and a major split created the Irish National Liberation Army . |
| 2 | It was after a most emphatic 9–2 triumph over city rival , Stephen Murphy , that Ken pocketed the Irish title . |
| 3 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 4 | The Konica League part-timers had only 16 minutes left of their second leg in Cork to negotiate when late goals by Pat Morley and substitute Johnny Glynn earned the Irish champions victory on away goals . |
| 5 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 6 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 7 | When a little old lady on Weybridge station platform asked the Irish stationmaster why there were two large wall clocks each giving a different time by a few minutes , the answer came in a fine Irish brogue : ‘ Ah , yes ma'am ! |
| 8 | ULSTER retained the Irish Senior Inter-provincial table tennis title in Galway last night beating Leinster 6–5 in a nail-biting climax to the tournament . |
| 9 | After the remarks , Official Unionist Party leader James Molyneaux claimed the Irish government had the same ultimate objectives as the IRA , while Peter Robinson , deputy leader of the Rev Ian Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party , said Mr Reynolds 's speech was a justification for the ‘ absurd and illegal ’ territorial claim . |
| 10 | She smiled at the baker too , rather warmly , not for the sake of Saturday 's bread bought cheap on Mondays but because his wife detested the Irish in general and that " bold , brazen strumpet from the top of St Jude's ' very much in particular . |
| 11 | Day three 's beach race saw the Irish challenge arrive ! |
| 12 | Miss Philomena Conneely , 21 , today collects a cheque for IR£1,940,852 ( £1,860,000 ) in Dublin after her 50p ticket won the Irish National Lottery . |
| 13 | Mr Delors summoned the Irish Agriculture Commissioner to Brussels to call a truce . |
| 14 | Sadly , when a potato disease called blight devastated the Irish crop in 1845 , 1846 and again in 1848 the entire population faced famine and starvation . |
| 15 | The towering Quinn led the Irish attack with relish despite an overnight scare when he was in agony from a grumbling appendix . |
| 16 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 17 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 18 | Clinton wooed the Irish vote in his campaign by promising to send a peace envoy to Northern Ireland , a move regarded by Britain as an intrusion into a domestic issue . |
| 19 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 20 | In fact Manawatu shattered the Irish with their 58–24 win , and the tourists were in no mood to outwit a rampant All Black side stung by their faults in the First Test . |
| 21 | Only against East Coast-Poverty Bay did the Irish finish the game in comfort . |
| 22 | No fewer than six play in central European football with three coming from Austria Vienna — Robertas Fridrikas — a player who hits a free kick like Ronald Koeman — Valdas Ivanauskas and the skilful midfield playmaker Arminas Narbekovas , It was Narbekovas and Fridrikas who scored in Belfast while the strong runs of 6 foot 2 inch Ivanauskas caused the Irish defence many problems . |
| 23 | On the outbreak of World War I Herbert joined the Irish Guards , despite his near-blindness , by the simple method of buying himself a second lieutenant 's uniform and falling in as the regiment boarded ship for France in August 1914 . |
| 24 | Her aunt Moyra McElderry captained the Irish hockey side in the 1960s . |
| 25 | Then he started to pick off his rivals , but time was slipping by and up in front outsider nd to Mill Reef in the Eclipse , Miss Dan , two lengths behind Nijinsky when third in the Arc in 1970 , Bourbon , who had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) and Irish Ball , who , though third to Mill Reef in the Derby and unplaced in the King George , had between those two races won the Irish Derby at The Curragh . |
| 26 | THE Hills family dominated the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh today when Nicer stormed to victory under Michael Hills and the winning trainer was his father Barry . |
| 27 | Other parts included the Irish curate in Devotion ( 1944 ) , a Hollywood gloss on the Bronte story ; Schumann in Song of Love ( 1947 ) ; the arms dealing lover of Gina Lollobrigida in Never So Few ( 1959 ) ; and the artist-doctor in Of Human Bondage ( 1964 ) . |