Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 2 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 3 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 4 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 5 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 6 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 7 | His stumbling gait took him off in all directions except the one he wanted to go in . |
| 8 | By the time London Transport took them over in 1933 , all but two had been so modified . |
| 9 | One wolf-whistled stridently , the rest looked her over in insolent silence . |
| 10 | His criticism of the prodigality of government in October 1675 was very ill-received at court , and when a pension to his son failed to secure his support , the king wrote him off among those people ‘ who will never be obliged ’ . |
| 11 | However Mhoira Robertson did accept that the rank cut her off from any real intimacy with ordinary people who were in awe of her power . |
| 12 | Prayer saw us through till all was quiet again . |
| 13 | Sister sent them off with one of the Hall nurses and rejoined me . |
| 14 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 15 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 16 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 17 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
| 18 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 19 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |
| 20 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 21 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 22 | Beresford was handed a lifeline by Barnsley after Manchester City kicked him out in 1986 . |
| 23 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 24 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 25 | Her daughter , Gemma , had been left money for her school dinners and an elderly neighbour took her in for several days before social workers took her into care last week . |
| 26 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 27 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 28 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 29 | Confronted with this reality , O'Neill conceded the principle of ‘ one man , one vote ’ , and the full parliamentary party voted it in on 22 April . |
| 30 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |