Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 4 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 5 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 6 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 7 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 8 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 9 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 10 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 11 | After a patchy opening the Canadian International tipped a Mark Holman blockbuster onto the bar and followed it with two more notable saves to deny Ricky Munroe and Stuart Massey . |
| 12 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 13 | McCann 's perseverance saw him move 5-4 ahead after seven ends , but a double on the next restored Robertson 's advantage and pushed him within one of the winning line . |
| 14 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 15 | And the time that Dame Edna came on , kissed Claire Rayner firmly on each cheek and left her with two luscious pink lip prints for the rest of the show . |
| 16 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 18 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 19 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 20 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 21 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 22 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 23 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 24 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 25 | Vass leaned back in his chair and subjected her to one of those arrogant black looks of his . |
| 26 | Carbery took a pack of cards out of his pocket and dealt them for Twenty-five . |
| 27 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 28 | Laughing , he plucked a laspistol from his belt and shot her through one of her blind eyes , boiling her brain . |
| 29 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 30 | A Basel court on March 17 , 1989 , found a computer specialist guilty of passing economic information to the Soviet Union and sentenced him to 45 days in prison . |