Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 2 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 3 | ‘ For it was then that the Vietminh had in one quick stroke taken over the nationalism of the country , that Ho had achieved the legitimacy of power . ’ |
| 4 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 5 | We measure the region 's troubles in terms of assassinations and war deaths but often forget the toll taken on the living by that everyday acquaintance with fear . |
| 6 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 7 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 8 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 9 | The housekeeper brought in the coffee in an ornate silver tray which she deposited on one level of the Scandinavian wall-system . |
| 10 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 11 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 12 | Standing on the front seat , Eb felt a rivulet of ice-cold water run down the back of his neck , and found that he was underneath a leaking gutter . |
| 13 | An arched and columned vestibule block marked out the building as a station , but behind rose a fifteen-storey office block . |
| 14 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 15 | O break instead our British wills of steel Cast out the traitor in our hearts , and slay The coward in our guts ; and turn , and kneel , And listen , and obey . |
| 16 | In any case , the darkness and the Balaclava cut down the risk of recognition . |
| 17 | Most importantly for Lear , lithography cut out the need for , and the expense of , the middlemen or professional draughtsmen , who all too often destroyed the artistry of a drawing by their clinical interpretation . |
| 18 | All money taken on the railway on this day will be donated to Saxon Wood Children 's Home in Basingstoke . |
| 19 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
| 20 | Penry propped up the pillows behind her , then opened the bag he 'd brought with him and took out a small torch . |
| 21 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 22 | The care taken over the disposal of the dead indicates a deeply held conviction that , provided the appropriate steps were taken , death could be regarded as a transitional state . |
| 23 | Next time you find yourself queuing to have your photo taken on the Cantilever in Snowdonia , or looking for a vacant shelter to eat your sandwiches in on Scafell Pike , stop and look to the west . |
| 24 | A shot taken on the set of Britain 's first sound film in 1929 . |
| 25 | But last week the company fleshed out the strategy by announcing its Multiprotocol Transport Networking Architecture and the first products that will conform to it : a new version of VTAM for MVS/ESA . |
| 26 | Only very rarely has the patient carried out the act with suicidal intent in mind . |
| 27 | Clara 's contingent sized up the situation in a disappointed trice , and hunched itself together in a corner to confront the disorderly scene by a solid front of backs . |
| 28 | At seven-thirty an officer brought in a tray with a bowl of semolina mixed with stewed dry fruit . |
| 29 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 30 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |