Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 2 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 3 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 4 | The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | It is possible that the origin is naval and dates from the 16th Century when ‘ sucking the monkey ’ described the tapping and topping up of a coconut with rum before the milk mix was sucked from it . |
| 6 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 7 | Hopefully I will be fully fit and fighting for a first team place in two weeks . ’ |
| 8 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 9 | Ownership links between ITV and radio were often indirect and came through a third party , including newspaper groups . |
| 10 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 11 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 12 | Now she has followed this up with her second book , The Kitchen God 's Wife ( Flamingo , £5.99 , published April 23 ) , which is as powerful and moving as the first . |
| 13 | A mock battle ensued — at least , she hoped it was mock — then the pair went racing soundlessly off to push the unlatched communicating door ajar and disappear into the next room . |
| 14 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 15 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 16 | Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units . |
| 17 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 18 | Born in America 's Midwest , Seberg , who committed suicide in 1979 , came to prominence as Jean Paul Belmondo 's co-star in the French new wave classic Breathless and starred in the first ever X-rated movie released in the States , Birds In Peru . |
| 19 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 20 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |